During Sunday night’s Academy Awards, “All the Empty Rooms” won for Best Documentary Short Film. The film focused on the victims of school shootings, including the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
The documentary was directed by Joshua Seftel and produced by Conall Jones. It featured CBS News journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp documenting the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings over the course of seven years.
Gloria Cazares, whose child was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting, accepted the award. The Cazares family was one that was featured in the documentary.
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“My daughter, Jackie, was nine years old when she was killed in Uvalde. Since that day, her bedroom has been frozen in time,” she said.
The documentary runs around half an hour and is distributed by Netflix. Below is the official trailer.