Mother's Heartbreaking Speech as 'All the Empty Rooms' Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Short

• "All the Empty Rooms," directed by Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones, won Best Documentary Short at the 98th Academy Awards.
• The film powerfully depicts the impact of school shootings by focusing on the untouched bedrooms of child victims.
• Gloria Cazares, mother of murdered schoolgirl Jackie, delivered an emotional speech, revealing her daughter's room is "frozen in time."
• She emphasized gun violence as the leading cause of death for US children and teens, urging, "If people could see their empty rooms, we would be a different America."
• This marked the first Oscar win for filmmakers Seftel and Jones, who use intimate visuals to memorialize absence.