Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
MovieTitle | Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Nov 15, 1994 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Ken Swartz |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Chronicle Pictures |
Run time | 51 min. |
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.