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SILENT ROOM

The core of Silent Room concept—focusing on the empty,
frozen-in-time child’s bedroom left behind after a school
shooting—lends itself powerfully to a dramatic, dark, black-
and-white micro short film. By removing the mother (and any
child figures), the piece becomes purely about absence and
lingering loss: the room itself as a silent witness, a tomb of
interrupted childhood. This aligns closely with real-world
memorials, such as the untouched bedrooms documented in
projects like the CBS News series (and Netflix short
documentary All the Empty Rooms), where families
preserve rooms exactly as they were, capturing the eerie
stillness of a life cut short.

  • Kevin B Ploth
    Director
    Shadow Docket, Diner of Darkness, GIANT
  • Vanessa Thorpe
    Director
    Shadow Docket, THE GIANT, DINER of DARKNESS
  • Kevin B Ploth
    Writer
    GIANT, This Stitching Will Last. Diner of Darkness, Shadow Docket
  • Vanessa Thorpe
    Producer
    GIANT
  • Kevin B Ploth
    Producer
    GIANT, This Stitching Will Last. Diner of Darkness, Shadow Docket
  • Lawrence Gress
    Producer
    Cinematography
  • Michael Sean McGuinness
    Producer
    1st AD
  • Lawrence Gress
    Producer
    Editing
  • Kevin B Ploth
    Key Cast
    "Man/Dad"
    GIANT, This Stitching Will Last. Diner of Darkness, Shadow Docket
  • Vanessa Thorpe
    POSTER ART
    THE GIANT, SHADOW DOCKET
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 10, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
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Director Biography - Kevin B Ploth, Vanessa Thorpe

Kevin B. Ploth is a film and television creative and producer, born March 19, 1972, with a life that weaves together arts education, hospitality and nightlife, military service, and later award‑winning writing and production. His path runs from New Jersey and Pennsylvania schools through the University of the Arts in Philadelphia into a veteran‑owned production career, where projects like THE GIANT and other screen work have earned industry recognition.

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Director Statement

A micro short film by Kevin B. Ploth
Black and white. Silent. Runtime: 8 minutes & .50
seconds.
The short Opens with this line:
“For the Children Gone! For the children here! For the
Children yet to come!” KBP
We hear gunshots, sirens, screams, a news segment then
open on a newspaper article another school shooting in
anywhere America.
Based on data through early 2026, school shootings
(K-12) have continued to occur at high rates, with Texas
frequently leading the nation in the number of incidents.
The following statistics are derived from sources like the
K-12 School Shooting Database
While earlier decades saw fewer incidents, data from
1966 to 2022 shows 721 fatalities in K-12 school shooting
incidents alone.
The majority of victims in K-12 incidents are children.