Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

IMDb 6.0 1994 β€’ 51 min β€’ Documentary

Director

Ken Swartz

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Hank Wilson
Hank Wilson Mr Ambassador
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson reporter
Pam Moore
Pam Moore Narrator/reporter
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson Narrator/reporter
Val Robb
Val Robb RN Nurse