Information
Release DateOctober 19, 2012
Runtime1h 41m
StatusReleased
Revenue$219K
ProductionRescued Media
LanguagesEnglish
6.8
19 votesPopularity2
Brooklyn Castle
"Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318"
Synopsis
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.
Cast & Crew
Director
Katie Dellamaggiore
Featured Cast
John Galvin
Himself
Elizabeth Vicary
Herself
Rochelle Ballantyne
Herself
Pobo Efekoro
Himself
Justus Williams
Himself
