“My ex-girlfriend had broken up with me in 2012 because I was basically just doing a lot of gambling and going to Vegas.” “Before that happened, I was kind of on this downward spiral,” says the 41-year-old Angeleno, who just released his second film, Money Machine, about corruption in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. If an instance of police brutality against Ramsey Denison didn’t save his life exactly, the documentary director says it at least helped him live a more productive one.