Sara Driver

Sara Driver is an American filmmaker associated with New York’s independent cinema. Raised in New Jersey, she studied theatre and classics before attending film school at New York University. She produced Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation and Stranger Than Paradise, while developing her own work as a director.

Her films include You Are Not I, adapted from Paul Bowles, Sleepwalk and When Pigs Fly, whose cast includes Alfred Molina and Marianne Faithfull. These stories introduce dreams, ghosts and strange events into everyday settings. Her documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat returns to the downtown arts community from which her filmmaking emerged.