This week, the Netflix documentary “All the Empty Rooms” won the 2026 Best Documentary Short Film Academy Award. The film reflects on the lasting damage of gun violence in the United States by showing the preserved bedrooms of four children killed in school shootings. One of the featured rooms is of Jackie Cazaras, killed in 2022 in Uvalde, TX, whose mother Gloria Cazares joined Jones, director Joshua Seftel, and reporter Steve Hartman on stage in accepting the award.
“Since that day, [Jackie’s] bedroom has been frozen in time,” Cazares said. “Jackie is more than just a headline. She is our light and our life. Gun violence is now the number one cause of death in kids and teens. We believe that if the world could see their empty bedrooms, we’d be a different America.”