Sara Driver
Born December 15, 1955 (70 years old)·Westfield, New Jersey, USA·Female
Biography
Sara Miller Driver is an American independent filmmaker and actress. A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984).
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Driver has directed two feature films, Sleepwalk (1986) and When Pigs Fly (1993), as well as a notable short film, You Are Not I (1981), and a documentary, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017), on the young artist's pre-fame life in the burgeoning downtown New York arts scene before the city's massive changes through the 1980s. She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.
Known for
the most rated titles across all credits
Filmography
45 credits across 28 titlesDirecting
11 creditsActing
12 creditsWriting
9 creditsProduction
5 creditsEditing
2 creditsCrew
2 creditsAs self
4 creditsTalk shows, festival coverage and documentary appearances, kept out of the acting list.
