All the Empty Rooms Hollywood Reporter," is an 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Joshua Seftel. The first film to be sold out of the 2025 Telluride Film Festival is All the Empty Rooms, a documentary short that chronicles CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp’s seven-year quest to memorialize the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings, which, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, Netflix has bought and plans to push for awards recognition.

The 33-minute tearjerker, which was directed by Joshua Seftel (who was Oscar-nominated for his 2022 Malala Yousafzai doc short Stranger at the Gate), is one of five shorts that will be playing in Telluride’s main program alongside dozens of features. Its world premiere screening will take place at the Le Pierre theater on Sunday at 7:45pm MDT, and Bopp’s photographs featured in the film will be on display at the Ah Haa Gallery in town (155 W Pacific Ave.) throughout the long weekend."

TIMELINE:

3/2017 Steve contacted me about this project and from the spring of 2017 through winter of 2024 we visited with 8 families.

11/2024 Steve Hartman featured his segment on The CBS Sunday Morning Show.

8/31/2025 The film had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival and numerous other festivals afterward.

Fall of 2025 Anderson Cooper due to feature this project on 60 Minutes.

12/2/2025 Netflix due to begin streaming the film on their platform.

Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/telluride-netflix-all-the-empty-rooms-doc-1236355376/