Known For
Directing
Known Credits
16
Gender
Female
Birthday
December 15, 1955 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Westfield, New Jersey, USA
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). 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.
| 2021 | Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver...Writer | |
| 2016 | Paterson...Script Consultant | |
| 2008 | Gold Eye Ball...Writer | |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers...Idea | |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers...Script Consultant | |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai...Story Consultant | |
| 1993 | When Pigs Fly...Story | |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk...Screenplay | |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk...Story | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I...Writer | |
| An Odd Enchantment...Writer |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die...Creative Consultant | |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive...Thanks |
| 2018 | Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat...Director | |
| 2008 | Gold Eye Ball...Director | |
| 1994 | The Bowery...Director | |
| 1993 | When Pigs Fly...Director | |
| 1993 | Strummer...Director | |
| 1988 | Monsters...Director | |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk...Director | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I...Director | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation...Assistant Director | |
| An Odd Enchantment...Director |
| 2016 | Paterson...Consulting Editor | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I...Editor |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk...Producer | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise...Producer | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise...Production Manager | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I...Producer | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation...Production Manager | |
| Garden of Ashes...Producer |
| 2025 | Adiosas | |
| 2021 | Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driveras Self (voice) | |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Dieas Female Coffee Zombie | |
| 2017 | Uncle Howardas Self | |
| 2011 | Blank Cityas Self | |
| 2001 | Some Days in January, 1984as | |
| 1994 | The Boweryas Self | |
| 1993 | Strummeras | |
| 1993 | Figaro Storyas Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself") | |
| 1991 | Keep It for Yourselfas Sam | |
| 1989 | Bloodhounds of Broadwayas Yvette | |
| 1989 | Mystery Trainas Airport Clerk | |
| 1988 | Monstersas Mom (voice) | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradiseas Girl with Hat | |
| 1982 | American Playhouseas Yvette | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacationas Nurse |