Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 15, 1994

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Chronicle Pictures

Cast

Val Robb,Carolyn Jones,Victoria Sanabria,Pam Moore,Hank Wilson,Bob Lawless,Tom Calvanese,Peter Wilson

Director

Ken Swartz

Producer

Janette Gitler

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt5855542