Film·1994·51m

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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.

Directed by Ken Swartz

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Cast

9 credited

Hank Wilson
Hank WilsonMr Ambassador
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilsonreporter
Pam Moore
Pam MooreNarrator/reporter
Peter Wilson
Peter WilsonNarrator/reporter
Val Robb
Val RobbRN Nurse
Carolyn Jones
Carolyn JonesRN Nurse
Bob Lawless
Bob LawlessRN Nurse
Victoria Sanabria
Victoria SanabriaSocial worker
Tom Calvanese
Tom CalvaneseHotel asssitant

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