Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
1994•51m•6.0•Released
Documentary
1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.
Director
Ken Swartz
Languages
English
Studio
Chronicle Pictures
Cast
Hank Wilson
Mr Ambassador
Peter Wilson
reporter
Pam Moore
Narrator/reporter
Peter Wilson
Narrator/reporter
Val Robb
RN Nurse
Carolyn Jones
RN Nurse
Bob Lawless
RN Nurse
Victoria Sanabria
Social worker
Tom Calvanese
Hotel asssitant
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