Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 15, 1994

Runtime

0h 51m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

60%

Original Title

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Production Companies

Chronicle Pictures

Director

Ken Swartz

Description

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.