Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Story

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.

Kurzinfos

Originaltitel

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Status

Released

Start

15.11.1994

Laufzeit

51 min

Originalsprache

en

Genres

Dokumentarfilm