Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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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.

Crew

KS

Ken Swartz

Director

Cast

HW

Hank Wilson

Mr Ambassador

PW

Peter Wilson

reporter

PM

Pam Moore

Narrator/reporter

PW

Peter Wilson

Narrator/reporter

VR

Val Robb

RN Nurse

CJ

Carolyn Jones

RN Nurse

BL

Bob Lawless

RN Nurse

VS

Victoria Sanabria

Social worker

TC

Tom Calvanese

Hotel asssitant

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