Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994)

Directed by Ken Swartz

Documentary · 51m

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.

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Cast

H
Hank Wilson Mr Ambassador
P
Peter Wilson reporter
P
Pam Moore Narrator/reporter
P
Peter Wilson Narrator/reporter
V
Val Robb RN Nurse
C
Carolyn Jones RN Nurse
B
Bob Lawless RN Nurse
V
Victoria Sanabria Social worker
T
Tom Calvanese Hotel asssitant

Crew

Director
Ken Swartz

Details

Release date
1994-11-15
Runtime
51m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Chronicle Pictures