The 35-minute film chronicles how broadcast journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp told the stories of how families have memorialized the bedrooms of children killed in mass shootings. Kerr \u2014 whose father, then the president of American University in Beirut, was shot and killed in 1984 \u2014 has long spoken out about a need for common-sense gun regulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t have anything to do with the making of the film,\u201d Kerr said Monday. \u201cBut I am very proud to be associated with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerr \u2014 a nine-time NBA champion as a player and coach, who also coached USA Basketball to Olympic gold at the 2024 Paris Games \u2014 said he did not hesitate when asked to be part of this project.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the Empty Rooms\u201d official trailer. (Netflix\/YouTube)<\/p>\n
\u201cThey called me about a year ago and asked if I would like to be an executive producer, which meant basically put my name on it and help promote it,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt was a no-brainer, just given my passion for the issue. And then after watching the film, I was just blown away by how beautiful it was and poignant it was. It was an easy decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Telling their story<\/p>\n
Kerr did some screenings for Netflix in recent weeks and wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times earlier this month about the film, detailing how he was drawn to the way director Joshua Seftel and others involved in the project told the stories of the families who have lost children in school shootings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat mattered to me right away was how the film listens to families,\u201d Kerr wrote in that piece. \u201cIt gives them room to speak about their children without exploiting their stories into politics or spectacle. There\u2019s a dignity in that choice, which is difficult to find in the way our country usually talks about gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
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From left, Joshua Seftel, Gloria Cazares, Conall Jones, and Steve Hartman accept the award for documentary short film for \u201cAll the Empty Rooms\u201d during the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n
Seftel accepted the Oscar on Sunday night, then ceded the microphone to Gloria Cazares, the mother of a 9-year-old killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter Jackie was 9 years old when she was killed in Uvalde,\u201d Gloria Cazares said on stage. \u201cSince that day, her bedroom has been frozen in time. Jackie is more than just a headline. She is our light and our life. Gun violence is now the No. 1 cause of death in kids and teens. We believe that if the world could see their empty bedrooms, we\u2019d be a different America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerr is the second member of the Warriors to be involved in an Oscar win in recent years: Golden State guard Stephen Curry was an executive producer for \u201cThe Queen of Basketball,\u201d which won for short subject documentary in 2022.<\/p>\n
Kerr was not at the Oscars \u2014 the Warriors had a game Sunday night, and he learned of the win in his family\u2019s group text \u2014 and said he does not get a statuette.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very passionate about the cause,\u201d Kerr said, \u201cbut I don\u2019t think this is going to turn me into a filmmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reporting by Tim Reynolds, Associated Press basketball writer.<\/p>\n
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