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 JeanMichel Basquiat 2017 on the young artists prefame life in the burgeoning downtown New York arts scene before the citys massive changes through the 1980s She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s