CinemaOSMovie · 1994 · 0h 51m

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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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 byKen Swartz

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 51m
Language
EN
Released
November 15, 1994
Studios
Chronicle Pictures

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring

Hank Wilson

Mr Ambassador

Peter Wilson

reporter

Pam Moore

Narrator/reporter

Val Robb

RN Nurse

Carolyn Jones

RN Nurse

Bob Lawless

RN Nurse

Victoria Sanabria

Social worker

Tom Calvanese

Hotel asssitant

Creative team
Directed by
Ken Swartz

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