Director

Sara Driver

Directing

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 1All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 6403

IMDb ID: nm0238138

Known for: Directing

Born: December 15, 1955

Age: 70

Place of birth: Westfield, New Jersey, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1981 - 2021

Years active: 41

Average TMDB rating: 6.7

Wikidata: Q7421614

Also known as

Sara Miller Driver

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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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