Brooklyn Castle (2012)

ALL 10/19/2012 (en) Documentary 101 Min
  • Release
    10/19/2012
  • Production
    Rescued Media
  • Rotten tomato
    68%
  • Original title
    Brooklyn Castle
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 219,407.00
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Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318

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.

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Brooklyn Castle (2012) 101 Min

ALL 10/19/2012 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 10/19/2012
  • Production
    Rescued Media
  • Original title Brooklyn Castle
  • en
  • Revenue219,407.00

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

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.

  1. Katie Dellamaggiore

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Nelson Dellamaggiore

    Editor

  4. Brian Schulz, Katie Dellamaggiore, Nelson Dellamaggiore

    Producer