DocFest: Saving Etting Street & Whitewashed

With Q&A’s

Saving Etting Street: A documentary feature by Dena Fisher and Amy Scott, follows carpenter Shelley Halstead as she trains a group of three young, Black women in construction skills by rehabbing vacant and abandoned houses in West Baltimore, challenging generations of racism and sexism in housing. The mission is to transform a distressed block on Etting Street into a community of Black women homeowners, helping build generational wealth and stability in a neighborhood plagued by poverty, crime, and neglect. When tensions arise within the diverse group of young women she’s teaching to build and a suspicious fire destroys one of her buildings, Shelley is forced to rethink her vision of community.

Whitewashed (Berry Minott, 10min): is a historical documentary essay exploring the mysterious death of Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, and the institutional forces that shaped its official narrative.