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All The Empty Rooms: "Not only do we not show shootings or talk about the shooters, we don’t even mention the word “gun.” "

A vHopeful Conversation with director Joshua Seftel about his Oscar nominated documentary short

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Vanessa Hope
Mar 01, 2026
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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. Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories and unbeknownst to his network’s bosses, pursues a piece on absence, memory, …

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