Sara Driver Movies and Career Information

Sara Driver is an independent filmmaker born in Westfield, NJ. She produced two early films for Jim Jarmusch, helping him to gain international attention and success. She is also known for coining the phrase necro-tourism after the surge in tourism due to the fall of the World Trade Towers in 2001. Driver made her directorial debut in 1981 with You Are Not I, a short subject film based on a Paul Bowles story and co-written by Jim Jarmusch. Driver directed her first feature film, Sleepwalk in 1986. It was awarded the prestigious Prix Georges Sadoul (1986) by the Cinematheque Francaise, the Special Prize at the 1986 International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, and was the opening night selection for the 25th Anniversary of the International Critic's Week (1986) at the Cannes International Film Festival. Sleepwalk was also featured at the Museum of Modern Art's 1987 New Directors Film Series and the Sundance Film Festival(1987). Driver directed the "Bed and Boar" episode of the TV series Monsters (1990). Her second feature film as a director, When Pigs Fly (1993), stars Marianne Faithfull and Alfred Molina and is scored by Joe Strummer. The film received the Best of Festival