Movie #3597 "All the Empty Rooms" (theater) I had seen this oscar-nominated short doc 2026 on CBS Sunday Morning, and seeing it on the big screen made it even more powerful. This film came about when Steve Hartman had to cover all the school shootings and at the end of the week, he was supposed to put a positive turn on the event --- and he found it more and more difficult to do, and he felt he and the viewing public was becoming numb to all the school shootings . So he set out to film the rooms these parents were leaving untouched in homage to their kids. In this short film, he covers 4 of them, but never forgets to let us know of the many others that still exist. The film shows the expert photographer he gets to do this ---- how in respect he takes his shoes off before he enters, he and Steve listen to the stories about the kids, and he goes around and takes pictures of the little valuables in each of the rooms -- when done, they give a photo book to the family. One moment I remember out of the film was the little notes this one girl wrote to herself in the future. Crushing image. What a way to prove these kids were loved and they were real and now they are gone. So sad and so well done --- I am thinking this is the winner of this batch. I'd give this one a 5 and a high recommendation - you need to see it if you haven't already.
"ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS" 34 mins PG13 34 mins I think this is on netflix
Follows correspondent Steve Hartman and ph0tographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
Director; Joshua Seftel
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