Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
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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- 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
Make it a double feature
2h 41m together
Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
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