Brooklyn Castle

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

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Documentary

Overview

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.

Keywords

woman director
competition
chess
scholarship
chess champion
chess tournament
chess grandmaster
public school

Details

Status: Released
Release date: October 19, 2012
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Doc Society,Rescued Media
Cast: Maurice Ashley,Alex Stripunsky,Justus Williams,Patrick Johnston,James Black, Jr,Elizabeth Vicary,Alexis Paredes,John Galvin,James Stallings,Fortunato Rubioand 3 more
Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Producer: Nelson Dellamaggiore,Brian Schulz,Katie Dellamaggiore,Geoff Gibson,Robert McLellan
Cinematography: Brian Schulz
Music: B. Satz
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: $219,407
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt1800266