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Academy Award® Winner | Best Documentary Short Film
Memorializing the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings.
Directed by @jrseftel
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Find hope in community action. Join us tonight in South Boulder as we put our prayers into organizing for a world without gun violence. #bouldercolorado @alltheemptyrooms
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Thank you to Josh Seftel, Avi Bond, Eric Nichols, Jon Levin, and Anna Bick Rowe for coming to Tufts - bringing their powerful film All the Empty Rooms to our students and community.
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The All Empty Rooms film screening on Thursday, October 8 will now begin at 6:00 pm (previously 5:30). We apologize for any inconvenience for registered guests and look forward to seeing you all at the event! Please note: registration for this event is currently full, but accepting registrations to the waitlist. If you have any questions, please contact fms@tufts.edu
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We’ve been so proud to partner with All the Empty Rooms, an Oscar-winning documentary that shows the very real toll mass shootings take on kids, families and communities. Director Josh Seftel explains so well why this film is so powerful. It takes us beyond the politics and brings us back to what this is really about: keeping kids safe at school.
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Thank you to @tuftsuniversity for this wonderful article. We’re excited to screen @alltheemptyrooms on campus next week. We’re deeply honored to take part in the announcement of the brand new Presidential Award for Civic Art and Impact, created in recognition of ‘All the Empty Rooms’ and the children whose lives are captured in the film. Four generations of Tufts students came together to work on this film, and this is an opportunity to share it with the next generation of students. Please join us to screen ‘All the Empty Rooms’ at Tufts University on October 8th at 5:30pm, RSVP at the link in our bio.
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ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS: SCREENING + ALUMNI Q&A Join Tufts Film and Media Studies for a special screening of the Academy Award-winnibg documentary short All the Empty Rooms, followed by a conversation with the Tufts alumni creative team who helped bring the film to life. Hear from Joshua Seftel (A90), Avi Bond (A21), Eric Nicols (A11), Anna Bick Rowe (A12), and Vikram Akula (A90), with discussion facilitated by Professor Howard Woolf and Professor Julie Dobrow. Stay afterward for a celebratory reception with food, drinks, and a chance to connect with the filmmakers. ✨ Thursday, October 8 ✨ 5:30-8:30 PM ✨ Barnum Hall LL08, 163 Packard Ave ✨ Free + open to the public, registration required Register through the link in our bio! Joshua Seftel is an Academy Award®-winning filmmaker driven by the conviction that storytelling can promote empathy, connection and change. His work includes the 2026 Oscar®-winning documentary, All The Empty Rooms (Netflix), the Oscar®-nominated Stranger at the Gate (The New Yorker), the Emmy winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and his regular appearances on CBS Sunday Morning where he interviews his 89-year-old mother. Avi Bond is an Associate Producer and Special Projects Lead at Oscar-winning Smartypants Pictures, working across development, production, and impact. She led the impact campaign for the Oscar-nominated Stranger at the Gate – producing nearly 100 live events and recruiting partners including Malala Yousafzai – and was a Co-Producer on the Oscar-winning All the Empty Rooms, contributing across development, casting, field production, and its global impact. Eric Nichols is an Emmy-winning producer and creative director. Most recently, he executive-produced the 2026 Academy Award-winning All the Empty Rooms and the Oscar-nominated Stranger at the Gate. His producing work also includes the Emmy- and Peabody-nominated The Secret Life of Muslims, the Emmy-nominated Self-Evident, and How to Fix a Primary, the feature documentary following Abdul El-Sayed in his run to become the country’s first Muslim governor. Anna Bick Rowe is an Emmy-winning and Peabody-nominated producer currently working as Executive Producer and
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Some films stay with you. All the Empty Rooms is one of them. This year, NYAGV is proud to honor Academy Award-winning filmmaker Joshua Seftel, director of All the Empty Rooms, a deeply moving documentary that takes us inside the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings. Quiet, intimate, and devastating, the film does something statistics alone cannot: it asks us to see these children not as headlines, but as full lives, deeply loved and profoundly missed. At our 2026 Benefit Dinner on October 21, we’ll share a segment from the film and hear from Josh about the storytelling behind it—and why keeping these children and their families at the center of this work matters. We hope you’ll be in the room with us. 🎟️ Tickets are going fast. Get yours before we sell out — link in bio. #NYAGV #AllTheEmptyRooms #GunViolencePrevention #NYStateOfMind #NoMoreEmptyRooms
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🎬 A look back at some of the documentary shorts featured in last year’s Shorts & Breakfast Bites program! From powerful reflections to stories of identity, culture, and connection, these films offered plenty to discover: ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS SAVING OUR ANCESTORS: REFLECTIONS BY DR. BIRUTÉ GALDIKAS WOMEN LAUGHING IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS LA LIGA
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Join Tufts University for a special screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary short All the Empty Rooms, followed by a conversation with members of the alumni creative team! ✨Thursday, October 8 ✨5:30 PM ✨Barnum Hall LL08 Hear from Tufts alumni Joshua Seftel (A90), Vikram Akula (A90), Avi Bond (A21), Eric Nichols (A11), and Anna Bick Rowe (A12) about the film and their creative process. Don't forget to stick around afterward for a celebratory reception with food, drinks, and a chat with the filmmakers. REGISTRATION REQUIRED (link in Bio) ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS, Academy Award® Winner • Best Documentary Short Film, 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. As these senseless incidents claim more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could. Co-sponsored by Tufts Office of the President, Tufts Film and Media Studies Program, Tufts Center for Inter-Disciplinary Studies, Tufts Department of Eliot-Pearson Child Studies and Human Development, Tufts Experimental College, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts Center for Humanites, International Literary and Visual Studies at Tufts, SMFA at Tufts
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Save the Date for a special community event in South Boulder next month as we host a screening of @alltheemptyrooms. Join us ahead of time for some organizing training, connecting, inspiring community and more. #bouldercolorado #endgunviolence
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Thank you, Producer/Director Joshua Seftel, for joining us for our screening of your Academy Award-winning short documentary film “All the Empty Rooms.” This film doesn’t lead with statistics — it leads with Hallie, Dominic, Gracie, and Jackie. With bedrooms left exactly as they were. With parents who still go in just to smell a blanket, or sit on a bed. That choice, to center the children and the families who loved them instead of headlines, is what makes this film so striking. Thank you for trusting our community with these stories, Joshua, and for the conversation afterward. We think of the empty rooms of Mason and Christian, who were killed in the Apalachee school shooting, whose siblings were present for the film screening. We have to keep centering children in every conversation about gun violence. Please watch “All the Empty Rooms,” streaming now on Netflix, and take action.
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“This film is not asking you to grieve... It’s asking you to take action.” Before our screening of “All the Empty Rooms,” Congresswoman Lucy McBath shared a powerful message about her journey—from a mother who lost her son, Jordan, to becoming a tireless advocate for gun violence prevention and a member of Congress. Her message set the stage for an important evening: the film, followed by a powerful panel discussion on the impact of gun violence and what we can do to prevent it. We cannot simply grieve the empty rooms. We have to work together so there are no more. Join us!
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