A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.
Director: Joshua Seftel
A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.
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I was quite anxious about watching this short feature, uncertain about what I thought might be an almost pruriently macabre job for correspondent Steve Hartman. He is usually the amiable news reporter associated with the more light-hearted "and, finally..." item at the end of a bulletin, but now with his photographer friend Lou Bopp he has embarked on a project to photograph the bedrooms of all of the children slain by gun crime at school. The number of victims has almost quadrupled in recent years, but with only a couple left to do we follow them to the Blackwell, Scruggs and Cazares families where we sit down with their parents and watch some of their home videos and reminisce about their talented and mischievous children before entering bedrooms that in many ways are shrines, untouched since the fatefal days that robbed their parents and siblings of Dominic, Hallie and Jackie (amongst…
All the Empty Rooms is a 2025 documentary movie from the United States directed by Joshua Seftel, starring Steve Hartman, Meryl Hartman and Bryan Muehlberger. It was released on August 31, 2025. The running time is 34 min, in English. Audiences rate it 7.3/10 from 66 votes — well received.
All the Empty Rooms was released on August 31, 2025.
All the Empty Rooms was directed by Joshua Seftel.
The main cast includes Steve Hartman, Meryl Hartman, Bryan Muehlberger, Gloria Cazares and Javier Cazares.
All the Empty Rooms runs 34 min.
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