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Sara Driver
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…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2025
Adios
Movie
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2021
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Movie Self (voice)
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2019
The Dead Don't Die
Movie Female Coffee Zombie
- 2018
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2017
Uncle Howard
Movie Self
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2016
Paterson
Movie Script Consultant
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2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
Movie Thanks
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2011
Blank City
Movie Self
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2008
Gold Eye Ball
Movie Writer
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2005
Broken Flowers
Movie Idea
- 2001
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1999
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Movie Story Consultant
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1994
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
Movie Continuity
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1994
The Bowery
Movie Self
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1993
When Pigs Fly
Movie Director
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1993
Strummer
Movie
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1993
Figaro Story
Movie Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")
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1991
Keep It for Yourself
Movie Sam
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1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Movie Yvette
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1989
Mystery Train
Movie Airport Clerk
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1988
Monsters
TV show Mom (voice)
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1986
Sleepwalk
Movie Director
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1984
Stranger Than Paradise
Movie Girl with Hat
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Yvette
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1981
You Are Not I
Movie Director
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1981
Permanent Vacation
Movie Nurse
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An Odd Enchantment
Movie Director
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Garden of Ashes
Movie Producer
