By James  Nye Described as the 'last stop at the bottom of the world' by some of its 6,000 or so hapless and homeless residents, Los Angeles' Skid Row is a grim circus of pimps, drug dealers, hustlers and prostitutes. For most of the men and women sleeping and wandering the downtown streets of the City of Angels the idea of divine intervention is as distant as the glimmering lights of Mullholland Drive and the Hollywood Hills. Their stories are easy to ignore, which is what inspired one documentary filmmaker to brave the violent, tent filled sidewalks to reveal life for what it is on the mean streets of America's second city.
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Australian filmmaker Shanks Rajendran spent 18 months in Skid Row, Los Angeles
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Enlisted the help of local man, Lavell Putman, who acted as his guide
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Engineered unprecedented access to the drug addled streets of downtown
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Met drug dealers, pimps and their prostitutes in an effort to expose the reality
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The feature-length film is unflinching in its portrayal of the destitution of America's second largest city
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