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‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims

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The director of an Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings on why it was his most daunting challenge to date – and the hard task of encouraging people to see it
The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson
Excerpt:
But since 1997, Hartman has also been reporting on school shootings, which have become a horrifyingly common feature of American life. (CNN reports that there were at least 78 in 2025, though there is no universal definition of a school shooting, which means that numbers vary depending on the source. Other reports suggest a much higher figure.)
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‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims
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Documentary films, Film, US news, Culture, US crime, US school shootings, Gun crime, Oscars 2026, Parkland, Florida school shooting, Texas school shooting, Newtown shooting, Netflix
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