"The sheer volume of school shootings, really, is what drove me to want to do this project, because we'd all grown numb to them. And I thought the way to maybe get people to not accept this anymore would be to stand in those bedrooms."
"I think every family has a different relationship with the room. Some people keep the door closed, and they go in there once in a while. Some people go in two times a day. But I think all of them shared one thing, which is they want their kids to be remembered."
"This is the most important story that I've ever done. But I feel like it has the greatest chance to change the world. I don't necessarily think that's gonna happen. It just has a better chance of changing the world."
The Oscar-nominated live action short film "All the Empty Rooms" documents the impact of school shootings through the empty bedrooms of children killed in these incidents. CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and director Joshua Seftel created the film to address the growing epidemic of school gun violence, with at least 163 incidents occurring on school grounds last year resulting in 54 deaths. The film explores how grieving families maintain relationships with their children's rooms, with each family handling their grief differently. Families featured in the documentary, including the father of 15-year-old Gracie who was killed at Saugus High School in 2019, express their desire for their children to be remembered and hope the film will help people stop accepting school shootings as inevitable.
Read at ABC7 Los Angeles
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