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Sara Driver

Sara Driver

Director · b. 1955 · 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.

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  • Movie5.4

    The Dead Don't Die

    2019 · 2.9K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Mystery Train

    1989 · 537 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Stranger Than Paradise

    1984 · 628 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    1989 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Uncle Howard

    2017 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Permanent Vacation

    1981 · 223 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Keep It for Yourself

    1991 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Blank City

    2011 · 19 votes

  • Movie7.3

    The Bowery

    1994 · 3 votes

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  • Movie8.0

    Figaro Story

    1993 · 1 votes

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  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV6.9

    Monsters

    1988 · 26 votes