Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
Join Vidiots and Cinema Eye Honors as we explore this year’s best non-fiction filmmaking with all-day screenings of the best documentary shorts of the year. Filmmakers at every screening! ***The Devil is Busy*** Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton / HBO | Max / 32 mins THE DEVIL IS BUSY takes viewers on a daylong journey with Tracii, the determined head of security at a women’s healthcare clinic in Atlanta, Georgia as she works to ensure the safety of women seeking abortions in the face of new restrictions and persistent protests. ***All The Empty Rooms*** Directed by Joshua Seftel / Netflix / 34 mins Reporter Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp embark on a cross country journey to memorialize the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings, highlighting the urgent need for action against the rising epidemic of gun violence. **About Cinema Eye Honors:****** Cinema Eye Honors recognize feature and short-length films and series with an emphasis on nonfiction work that is designed for public distribution, whether primarily theatrical, festival, broadcast or streaming. Cinema Eye seeks to encourage audiences to engage with nonfiction work that crosses all genres, whether observational, journalistic, activist, essayistic, light-hearted or provocative as well as those exciting works that blur the lines between nonfiction and fiction. Since its founding, Cinema Eye has sought to change the conversation that film critics, festivals and awards bodies have surrounding documentary film, shifting the emphasis from importance of topic to artistic craft. See programs 1 and 2 [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-cinema-eye-honors-shorts-list-program-1/) and [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-cinema-eye-honors-shorts-list-program-2/)