

Sara Driver
Director · Actor · WriterSara 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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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR14

Adios
2025

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
2021
Self (voice)

The Dead Don't Die
2019
Female Coffee Zombie

Uncle Howard
2017
Self

Blank City
2011
Self

Some Days in January, 1984
2001

The Bowery
1994
Self

Figaro Story
1993
Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
- Strummer
Strummer
1993

Keep It for Yourself
1991
Sam

Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Yvette

Mystery Train
1989
Airport Clerk

Stranger Than Paradise
1984
Girl with Hat

Permanent Vacation
1981
Nurse
DIRECTOR9

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018
Director

Gold Eye Ball
2008
Director

The Bowery
1994
Director

When Pigs Fly
1993
Director
- Strummer
Strummer
1993
Director

Sleepwalk
1986
Director

You Are Not I
1981
Director

Permanent Vacation
1981
Assistant Director
- An Odd Enchantment
An Odd Enchantment
Director
WRITER9

Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
2021
Writer

Paterson
2016
Script Consultant

Gold Eye Ball
2008
Writer

Broken Flowers
2005
Idea, Script Consultant

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999
Story Consultant

When Pigs Fly
1993
Story

Sleepwalk
1986
Screenplay, Story

You Are Not I
1981
Writer
- An Odd Enchantment
An Odd Enchantment
Writer






