Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle (2012)

Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2012-10-19
  • User Rating: 6.8/10 from 19 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 41min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Rescued Media
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
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Summary

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

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  • John Galvin

    as Himself
  • Elizabeth Vicary

    as Herself
  • Rochelle Ballantyne

    as Herself
  • Pobo Efekoro

    as Himself
  • Justus Williams

    as Himself
  • Alex Stripunsky

    as Himself
  • James Stallings

    as Himself
  • Maurice Ashley

    as Himself
  • Alexis Paredes

    as Himself
  • Miron Sher

    as Himself
  • Patrick Johnston

    as Himself
  • Fortunato Rubio

    as Himself
  • James Black, Jr

    as Himself
Directing Katie Dellamaggiore Director
Art Katherine Kennedy Art Direction
Production Brian Schulz Producer
Production Geoff Gibson Executive Producer
Camera Brian Schulz Director of Photography
Editing Nelson Dellamaggiore Editor
Production Katie Dellamaggiore Producer
Production Nelson Dellamaggiore Producer
Sound B. Satz Original Music Composer
Production Robert McLellan Executive Producer

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