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Sara Miller Driver (born December 15, 1955) is an American independent filmmaker and actress from Westfield, New Jersey. 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 ...
Jun 21, 2019 · Flipboard. Email. Director Sara Driver refined her craft during New York's indie filmmaker boom in the late 1970s-1990s. Her directorial debut came in 1981 with You are Not I, a film about...
I talked with Sara in New York on February 1, just before she left for Roxy Cinema to see Claire Denis’s Keep it For Yourself (1991), in which she acted (“last time I saw this was on VHS”) and George Franju’s Judex (1963), which she selected for her retrospective series.
And it’s so great to go back to the movies. Words By Leah Singer. Portrait of filmmaker Sara Driver. Photo by Kate Simon. Writer Leah Singer sits down with filmmaker Sara Driver to talk about her upcoming retrospective at Roxy Cinema New York.
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Jun 22, 2018 · Sara Driver: ‘You dream a film before you make it’. The New York artist-filmmaker discusses her intimate new profile of Jean-Michel Basquiat. I t’s not a sight you see very often: a director credit displaying the name Sara Driver. Her first film work was as a director in 1983 – she made a film inspired by a Paul Bowles novel called ...
In 2017, New York filmmaker Sara Driver released Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. An immersive, time capsule of a documentary, the film delves into the life of revolutionary artist Basquiat as a teenager running around the streets of Lower Manhattan in the late ’70s.
