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Sara Driver (born December 15, 1955) is an American independent filmmaker 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) 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). She served on the juries of various film festivals throughout the 2000s.〔Luc Sante, "Sara Driver's Movies Are Doorways Into the Unknown," Liner notes to ''Driver x 4'' DVD collection, 2012.〕 Driver has been credited with coining the phrase "necro-tourism" after the surge in tourism in New York due to the fall of the World Trade Towers in 2001.〔(Gold Eye Ball ), 2008 Creepy Christmas Film Festival website, 2008.〕 ==Film career== Driver made her directorial debut in 1981 with ''You Are Not I'',〔(IMDB - You Are Not I )〕 a short subject film based on a Paul Bowles story and co-written by Jim Jarmusch. Shot in six days on a $12,000 budget, it developed a following soon after a well-received premiere at the Public Theater, only to be pulled out of circulation when a warehouse fire destroyed the film's negative. Rarely seen, it was still championed by renowned critics and film journals like Jonathan Rosenbaum and ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', which hailed ''You Are Not I'' as one of the best films of the 1980s. Considered 'lost' for many years, a print was later discovered among Bowles's belongings. Driver was awarded a preservation grant from Women in Film and Television. The restored film screened in the Master Works section of The New York Film Festival 2011. Driver directed her first feature film, ''Sleepwalk'' in 1986. It was awarded the Prix Georges Sadoul (1986) by the Cinémathèque Française,〔Ligue française de l'enseignement et de l'éducation permanente, "La Revue du cinéma, Volumes 423-428", 1987〕 the Special Prize at the 1986 International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, and was the opening night selection for the 25th Anniversary of the International Critics' Week (1986) at the Cannes Film Festival. ''Sleepwalk'' was also featured at the Museum of Modern Art's 1987 New Directors/New Films Festival〔(MOMA's New Director's 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 Feature award at the 1994 Long Island Film Festival. ''When Pigs Fly'' premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. Driver also wrote and directed the short documentary, ''The Bowery - Spring, 1994'', part of ''Postcards from New York'', an anthology program for French TV. Driver has producer and production credits for many films of Jim Jarmusch, as well as minor roles in three of his films. Driver's theater work includes the play ''What the Hell - Zelda Sayre'' (1977, writer, director); the experimental musical ''Jazz Passengers in Egypt'' (1990, director), performed at La Mama, NYC; as well as the play ''Stairway to Heaven'' (1994, director), at the Cucaracha Theatre, NYC.〔Willis, John A. "Theatre World" Volume 51, 1997.〕 Driver was a juror at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (2004) where they also did a retrospective of her films.〔(Buenos Aires Independent FF Review ) by Gerald Peary〕 She was also a juror at the Miami International Film Festival (2005), San Sebastián Film Festival (2006), Bahamas International Film Festival (2006), and director Emir Kusturica's Küstendorf Film and Music Festival (2010). Driver has been described as an "often overlooked linchpin of the downtown New York independent film scene."〔Dennis Lim, "(Sleepwalking in Fantasy Worlds Like This One )," ''New York Times'', 16 March 2012.〕 Film critic Luc Sante describes Driver's movies as "doorways into the unknown."〔 Rosenbaum wrote that Driver's films "belong to what the French call ''la fantastique''— a conflation of fantasy with surrealism, science fiction, comics, horror, sword-and-sorcery, and the supernatural that stretches all the way from art cinema to exploitation by way of Hollywood."〔Jonathan Rosenbaum, "From Bowles to the Bowery: Sara Driver in Hyper Drive," Liner notes to ''Driver x 4'' DVD collection, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sara Driver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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