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Short documentary featuring a day in the life with a group of denizens living in the underbelly of the glamorous life of Los Angeles. It’s the story of a desperate search for the Hollywood dream which has been imploding in Downtown LA.
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30 responses // Angels

  • Gritty, intense, and intimate, this protrayel of the seedy side of downtown Los Angeles is hard too watch at times, short bursts of beauty, and haunting characters.

    Although there isn't much in the way of a narrative arch, the slice of life approach works brilliantly. Well done, I hope Current takes notice.

    Oh yeah -- Green Light -- but that's a given after that review, right?
    Insurgent
  • This piece must be seen by individuals who don't wish to acknwoledge that these conditions exist. The 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' ideals practiced everywhere, have backfired enormously on society. Definitely an eye-opener. Definitely a Greenlight!
    Analysis489
  • Extraordinary. What world do we live in that lets us spend billions on war and nothing on fixing our own back yards? I make TV professionally and would be proud to have created a piece as creative, interesting and important as this. Green Light now!
    Disco
  • Fantastic. This is what we need: to be extremely close to both destruction and creation.
    A greener light to you mr. franzcam!
    videophilosopher
  • Glad to see a story seldom told come through so clear. Bravo, Bravo.
    kman
  • A great piece of art and information, and I don't say that lightly. This story literally gave me the chills. Before the war on terror, it was the war on drugs, a battle we have lost without really ever being in the fight. An enemy willing and hungry to die for their cause, is an enemy unable to be defeated. So indeed, like terrorism abroad, we will never be able to put a dent in the drug problem in this country, until we address the root causes of drug use, poverty and miseducation being at the forefront.

    Thank you and Blessings on your future reports Marco...

    Jeremiah Alexis
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  • Gripping. Greenlight.
    DeanHamer
  • Excellent work. My greenlight.
    Indieflick
  • Great Job

    GL
    Fiffie
  • Nice lead in- contrasting the richness of the streetlife and sounds then startling us with the gritty life of a street addict on the bottom of the social pecking order and the day to day realities of his survival. The ending leaves something to be desired as it just stops abruptly. The piece contains some shocking footage of a person trying to shoot up who has lost all their veins from years of using street drugs. Could use a smoother ending or something to resolve it or tie the whole thing together.
    revsoc
  • not a bit of sympathy do I feel for any of these people who have betrayed all those other people in their own personal lives who cared for them (ie the daughter of the woman).. all for the sake of getting high.

    definitely a green light.. and well done.
    bbouslaugh
  • I don't know? How many of you have friends that are junkies? I have one friend who was a brilliant guitarist and at one time was my best friend until he stole my Moms jewelry. In high school we always joked that he would wind up a heroin junkie living in his parent’s basement. Well at 40 earlier this year he died of cancer which was accelerated by his drug use. I have no pity for these people their selfish and ignorant and should be off the streets because there is nothing you can do to save them and if you try you pay the price. By the way I guess I'm the only one who doesn’t care for a story about junkies.
    pseudo
  • This makes me sad.
    allthewhile
  • Whoa! That was incredible. Very intense. It's almost too real. I loved it!
    remedialmath
  • beautiful how articulate and accessible the subects were. Broke sterotypes of the crazed junkie. real people dealing with a very addictive substance.
    danishmuffin
  • I have seen these actual people many times and I am shocked by how articulate they are. This is not an indictment on the government’s so called lack of response to drugs and poverty. It’s an indictment on those who pimp the vulnerability of individuals and the frailties of those individuals who tragically cannot find the drug of self-fulfillment, creativity, and devotion to their community. Fantastic work and I greenlight to the fullest extent of the laws of Curent.tv.
    BruthaBooJee
  • With the recent string of calamities striking not only America but now the world, I think footage and stories like this are important for the public to see. Aside from natural disasters many people make disasters of thier own lives wether influenced by the imbalances of society or not. Nothing can be written as good as reality. "Dope" piece Franzcam.
    mediaglutton
  • Question. How were you able to get Mcdonald's sign a release form for the movie considering a drug offense took place on their property? I thought the video was great. GL. Also any post scriipt on those people on after the movie was finished?
    pedropolis
  • Where is Current_Tv's own self censorship? I think that this segment tells a dark truth of reality that we as a society don't always see on primetime tv, yes. I praise current_tv's awe inspiring goal of democratic programming brought by the people for the people, and I think that this segment is one of the purest interpretations of a reality that some live. However, I just finished viewing Angels at around 8:30 or so in the morning, and I cannot believe that current_tv had the nerve to show eight minutes of crack addicts shooting up while some six year old can flip the chanel and instantly have too heavy of a dose of reality. I think that expression of the truth is essential, and I don't condemn this segment for being created, I am just saying that these images that current shows are powerful things, and should not be tossed around lightly.
    JoRoRu
  • Awesome!!

    Check us out,

    Mitchy and Skot

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  • So much of good editing is deciding what to leave out.

    I'm sure you had ten times the footage than you put in the final edit, and your choices of what to leave in are masterful. I hope this piece will get you more of the kind of work you want to produce.
    dlbdlb
  • GREAT, THERE REALLY IS KNOW PLACE LIKE LA!!
    kingrowe
  • Safe injection and inhalation sites/dispenseries reduce the amount of accidental overdoses, infectious diseases and street dealing. Vancouver has a safe injection site in the heart of the Eastide, but it's not enough.

    Through regulated, supervised use, these people would have a better chance to positively contribute to society.

    This is not a problem that will be solved with the current drug laws. Arresting drug abusers only compunds the problem.
    Rebecks
  • this is really heavy stuff! Great documentary really worth to be on air (although not for children of course).
    no_replay
  • one of the best things i've seen on here. just great all around... how did you get them to let you go over the 5 minutes?
    CatherineDay
  • I love your non involvment; how you let characters tell the story. And not some annoying narrator.
    papatenor
  • A couple comments on the posts: I think it was a strong piece that perhaps children SHOULD see. Get a glimpse of what you become once drugs become your Holy Grail. And those who want current.tv to censor content because any" 6 year old can flip the chanNel and instantly have too heavy of a dose of reality" should, perhaps, consider censoring their own "six year olds". Why do some people want others to control what they (or their kids) can see? Don't like something you're seeing? Change the channel, turn it off. Don't want your kids to view something? Be a parent-take controlL. Hey, there's my first pod!
    LongBeach
  • a powerful pod but i agree with JoRoRu, what is current doing to ensure minors dont get access to opinions presented here?

    while its good in certain ways that children are not lied to and are presented with the facts, the style of the pod lets the opinions of the drug addicts shine through to impressionable children. The clip ends with, ''i tried self help books, religion, time, but the only thing that worked was heroine.'' would a child understand the irony behind this statement?
    flynnie
  • Remind me..
    to never go
    to LA

    its kind of scary that stuff like that happens in my country
    DarwinIsThere
  • That is such an amazing video...it REALLY goes in depth. I just love how it shows the people actually committing the acts, it shows the reality of the situation and gives the video even more impact. Extraordinary job.
    bluesoldier11

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