
All the Empty Rooms(2025)
A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.


“What remains after all is lost?”
A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

Joe Biden
Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)

Dylan Hockley

Daniel Barden
Newtown is a documentary film released in 2016 exploring themes of school, gun violence, school shooting, woman director. Directed by Kim A. Snyder, it stars Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Dylan Hockley. A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.
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