All the Empty Rooms: Film Screening and Panel Conversation

Join us for a screening of the 2026 Academy Award-winning documentary short film, All the Empty Rooms, hosted by co-executive producers and current Yale parents, Roy and Mary Judelson P '26 (Alexander), and Yale Schwarzman Center. 

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 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. 

Following the screening, Dean Megan Ranney and Community Scholar Nelba Márquez-Greene—both from the Yale School of Public Health—will join correspondent Steve Hartman and director Joshua Seftel for a conversation moderated by Executive Producer Lisa Cortés ’83.