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"All the Empty Rooms" Wins Oscar for Steve Hartman's Project Memorializing Children Killed in School Shootings
The short documentary won Best Documentary Short Oscar, highlighting school shooting victims through their untouched bedrooms and citing gun violence as the leading cause of death among U.S. youth.
- On Sunday, the documentary "All the Empty Rooms" won Best Documentary Short at the 98th Academy Awards. Director Joshua Seftel, producer Conall Jones, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman, and Gloria Cazares accepted the award.
- Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp spent seven years documenting the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings to capture the toll of America's shooting epidemic.
- Among those featured is 9-year-old Jackie, killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Cazares invited the filmmakers into her home to show the reality of her loss.
- Describing the room as "frozen in time," Cazares stated her daughter's room "completely just speaks of who she was" and is "more than just a headline."
- Cazares appealed for an end to gun violence, noting it is the leading cause of death for children and teens in America, and expressed hope that seeing the empty rooms will help enact change.
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