Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle (2012)

Released: 2012-10-19 Duration: 1hr 41min
Genres: Documentary
Rating 6.8
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.

Production Companies

Rescued Media

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $219,407.00
Original Language en
Popularity 5.936

Directed By

Katie Dellamaggiore

Crew

Executive Producer
Robert McLellan
Original Music Composer
B. Satz
Executive Producer
Geoff Gibson
Producer
Brian Schulz
Art Direction
Katherine Kennedy
Director of Photography
Brian Schulz

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