Go For Sisters is the 18th feature film written and directed by independent cinema pioneer John Sayles.

The film was shot in summer 2012 in Los Angeles, Calexico, Mexicali and Tijuana and stars Edward James Olmos, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, and Hector Elizondo.

Bernice Stokes and Fontayne Gamble grew up the closest of friends. After high school Bernice got into social services and corrections work, and Fontayne just got into trouble. Twenty years later Bernice is assigned as parole officer for Fontayne– just released from prison and fighting a drug habit. But Bernice’s son Rodney has gone missing on the Mexican border, and his shady partners are in hiding or brutally murdered. Fontayne, through a prison girlfriend, enlists Freddy Suárez, a disgraced, near-blind ex-LAPD detective once known as ‘the Terminator,’ to help them find Rodney. Outlaws on a noble quest, they are lured into a potentially deadly cat-and-mouse game with mysterious Chinese smugglers.

With a budget well under a million dollars and four weeks to shoot, Go For Sisters is a return to the guerrilla style of filmmaking familiar to Sayles from his early 80’s films Return of the Secaucus Seven, Lianna and Brother from Another Planet.

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