Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

APPROPIATE

1994 / 51min.

Rating6

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Hank Wilson

Peter Wilson

Pam Moore

Peter Wilson

Val Robb

Carolyn Jones

Bob Lawless

Victoria Sanabria

Tom Calvanese

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