Professional Shorts
All the Empty Rooms
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, and the unseen ripples of America's gun violence epidemic. A Netflix release.
Followed by the fiction feature Rosemead. A Q&A with director and producer Joshua Seftel immediately follows the screening.
Georgia premiere
DIRECTOR
Joshua Seftel
PRODUCERS
Joshua Seftel
Conall Jones
James Costa
Trevor Burgess
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Joshua Seftel is the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker behind Stranger at the Gate, a project combating Islamophobia that he produced with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai. In addition to his many award-winning documentaries for HBO, PBS, POV, National Geographic, and Showtime, Seftel is known for directing the landmark Emmy Award-winning Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.