Sara Driver

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Sara Driver is an independent filmmaker. She was born in Westfield, New Jersey on 15 December 1955. She is the wife of film director Jim Jarmusch.

She was educated at the American Institute of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece and at New York University's school of film. Driver was a juror at the Miami International Film Festival in 2005.

[edit] Film career

Driver made her directorial debut with a short movie entitled You Are Not I which was co-written by Jim Jarmusch in 1981. She directed her first feature length movie Sleepwalk in 1986. She also directed the "Bed and Boar" episode of the TV series Monsters which was released in 1990. Her most recent movie was When Pigs Fly in 1993. She has many production credits on the films of Jim Jarmusch including his second movie Stranger Than Paradise and she had minor roles in three of his films.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1980	Permanent Vacation (film)	Actor: Nurse, Production Manager, Assistant Director
1981	You Are Not I	Director, Writer, Producer
1984	Stranger Than Paradise	Actor: Girl with hat, Producer, Production Manager
1986	Sleepwalk/Year of the Dog	Director, Writer, Producer
1986	Down By Law	Production Troubleshooter
1989	Mystery Train	Actor: Airport clerk
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Actor: Yvette
1990	Monsters Bed and Boar Tv Series episode	Director
1991	Keep It For Yourself	Actor
1991	Night on Earth	Served as dailies troubleshooter
1993]	When Pigs Fly	Director, Writer
1999	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Story Consultant
2005	Broken Flowers	On credits as 'idea inspired from'