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). 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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View The Dead Don't Die
The Dead Don't Die

The Dead Don't Die

2019Film
5.4
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Mystery Train

Mystery Train

1989Film
7.3
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Bloodhounds of Broadway

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989Film
5.6
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Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise

1984Film
7.2
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Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation

1981Film
5.9
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Blank City

Blank City

2011Film
7.1
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Figaro Story

Figaro Story

1991Film0
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Keep It for Yourself

Keep It for Yourself

1991Film
5.7
View Some Days in January, 1984
Some Days in January, 1984

Some Days in January, 1984

2001Film0
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Uncle Howard

Uncle Howard

2017Film
6.5
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Adios

Adios

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Strummer

1993Film0