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Sara Driver

Born
Dec 15, 1955 · Age 70
Place of birth
Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Gender
Female
Movie credits
14
TV credits
2
Directing credits
9
Also known as (1)
  • Sara Miller Driver

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…