Mankillers [SEP] director
Mankillers
Mankillers, also known as 12 Wild Women, is a 1987 action film written and directed by David A. Prior.
Filmed in 1986 in and around Riverside, California, United States, it was shot back to back with "Deadly Prey" as part of the newly formed Action International Pictures.
The alternate title notwithstanding, "Mankillers" actually features fifteen women as members of the titular commando unit, not twelve.
Plot.
A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-
an apartment there, when the Mankillers arrived were no apartments available. They were housed in a squalid hotel in the Tenderloin District for several weeks. Even when the family moved to Potrero Hill where both her father and brother Don found work, the family struggled financially. They had few Native American neighbors, creating alienation from their tribal identities. 
Mankiller and her siblings enrolled in school, but it was difficult as the other students made fun of her surname and teased her about her clothes and the way she spoke. Her