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Sara Driver
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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 …
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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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Sara Driver's Filmography
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Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
as Self (voice)
The Dead Don't Die
as Female Coffee Zombie
Uncle Howard
as Self
Blank City
as Self
Some Days in January, 1984
The Bowery
as Self
No Poster
Strummer
Figaro Story
as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
Keep It for Yourself
as Sam
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Yvette
Mystery Train
as Airport Clerk
Stranger Than Paradise
as Girl with Hat
Permanent Vacation
as Nurse