Sara Driver
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.
The Dead Don't Die
as Female Coffee ZombieIn a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled...
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Mystery Train
as Airport ClerkIn Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric...
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Stranger Than Paradise
as Girl with HatA Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.
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Permanent Vacation
as NurseIn downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is...
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
as YvetteThis musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels...
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Blank City
as SelfIn the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never...
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Uncle Howard
as SelfWhen Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two...
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Figaro Story
as Sam (segment "Keep It for Yourself")An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.
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Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
as Self (voice)In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch's sophomore film, Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on...
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Keep It for Yourself
as SamSophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months...
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Some Days in January, 1984
as uncreditedA short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch,...
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The Bowery
as SelfDocumentary about the history, people, and culture of New Yorks' Bowery Street and neighborhood.
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