Stories That Matter Presents "All the Empty Rooms"

• Joshua Seftel, Director, All the Empty Rooms
• Cass Crifasi, PhD, MPH, Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Additional Panelists TBD

5:30 p.m. Check in
6:30 p.m. Program
7:15 p.m. Panel Discussion with Q&A
8:15 p.m. Reception begins
9:15 p.m. Reception concludes

555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

• A photo ID is required for entry.
• Each attendee must have a ticket registered in their own name. If you reserved a ticket for someone else, please ensure their name and information are correctly entered.
• A printed ticket is not needed.
• Theater seating is first-come, first-served. Guests are encouraged to arrive early; overflow seating may be available.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joshua Seftel (Stranger at the Gate) was surprised when veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reached out to discuss the possibility of chronicling the heartbreaking impact of school shootings in the United States. It had been over two decades since they had last spoken, and Seftel, who had been a producer of the feel-good stories Hartman was known for, was surprised by the turn to such devastating subject matter. But Hartman explained that the shadow of gun violence that hangs over every day American life was too pervasive for him to gloss over anymore.

He told Seftel of a project he had embarked on with photographer Lou Bopp seven years prior: a series of journeys across the country to photograph the empty rooms of children lost to gun violence, and to document the stories of their tragically short lives. The conversation resulted in the Oscar-nominated documentary film All the Empty Rooms, a harrowing portrait of the seemingly never-ending grief that follows in the wake of school shootings, as well as a way to honor the undeniable memories of those lost.

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Join the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center and the , in association with the , for the sixth film in the Stories That Matter™ series, the Academy Award-nominated Netflix short film All the Empty Rooms. Special thanks to the Double Exposure Film Festival.

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center and the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of the Arts and Sciences Graduate Film and Media Program launched the Stories that Matter™ film screening series to present cinema at the intersection of art, scientific discovery, urgent social issues and international affairs. The series is designed to cultivate robust dialogue among filmmakers, scholars, students, government officials, policy stakeholders, and the public.
The curated program in the Stories that Matter™ series spans U.S. and international cinema including narrative features, documentaries, and short films. Screenings take place in the 375-seat state-of-the-art theater at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center. The series provides filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world the opportunity to present international cinema to D.C. audiences, including stakeholders in the U.S. government, the international diplomatic community, and Johns Hopkins students and alumni, at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, situated at the epicenter of the U.S. capital, with sweeping views of the Capitol building and the National Gallery of Art.
Post-screening conversations with attending directors, actors, producers, screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, music composers, and documentary participants will be moderated by academic faculty, including Libowitz and experts from across Johns Hopkins.
Certain films will also be presented at Johns Hopkins campuses in Baltimore, Maryland and in Bologna, Italy.
The Cineteca di Bologna is partnering with the Johns Hopkins AAP Graduate Film and Media program to present the Stories that Matter™ series at the 358-seat, historic, and newly-restored Cinema Modernissimo in Bologna. Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe students and community members will be invited to attend and participate in all screenings at the Cinema Modernissimo alongside the Cineteca di Bologna audience.

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