Short Film
All the Empty Rooms

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A visual meditation on absence, memory, and the unseen ripples of America’s gun violence epidemic. ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS follows veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Tired of whitewashing tragedy with obligatory uplift, Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories to pursue a project his network never approved. As gun violence claims more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could.
Extended Q&A follows
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Genre
Runtime
33 min
Section
Standalone Short
Release Year
2025
Director
Joshua Seftel
Producer
Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones, James Costa, Trevor Burgess
Subject
Steve Hartman, Lou Bopp
Country
USA
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