Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Documentary Film Event:

STEALING TRUST: MARYLANDERS SPEAK OUT ON SCAMS, FRAUDS AND FINANCIAL ABUSE

You hire a contractor to renovate your home but he walks off with your life savings and leaves you with an empty shell. You sign up with a company that promises to settle your debts, pay thousands of dollars but end up deeper in debt and more desperate than ever. You lose your job and contact your lender about modifying your mortgage but the banker ignores the law and evicts you from your home. The new documentary film “Stealing Trust” examines how bad things can happen to good people and what we can do to stop the financial abuses that cause such tragedies.

“Stealing Trust” channels the clear, eloquent voices of hardworking Marylanders who have lost their homes, their life savings and even their capacity to trust others to mortgage lenders, debt settlement companies and unscrupulous home contractors to offer an unusually powerful look not only at terrible toll predatory financial practices have taken on individuals and families across the state but at some of the ways consumers have successfully fought back.

Free screenings:
• June 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD.
• June 28 at 7 p.m. at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, 800 St. Paul St., Baltimore MD.