Sara Driver
Age: 70
- Movies:
- 9
- First appearance:
- 1981
- Latest appearance:
- 2025
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.
Most frequent collaborators
Sara Driver has shared the screen with many actors over the years. Discover the performers she has made the most movies with.
John Lurie3 movies together
Eric Mitchell2 movies together
Eszter Balint2 movies together
Jim Jarmusch2 movies together
Richard Boes2 movies together
Richard Edson2 movies together
Sophie Simon2 movies together
Steve Buscemi2 movies together
Tom DiCillo2 movies together
Tom Waits2 movies together
Vincent Gallo2 movies together
Most frequent movie genres
The genres Sara Driver has worked in most, counted across the whole filmography. Click a genre to see the matching movies.
