Brooklyn Castle

2012

101 min

6.8

Ends at

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.

Budget

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Genre

Documentary

Director

Katie Dellamaggiore

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

John Galvin

Elizabeth Vicary

Rochelle Ballantyne

Pobo Efekoro

Justus Williams

Alex Stripunsky

James Stallings

Maurice Ashley

Alexis Paredes

Miron Sher

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Brooklyn Castle

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.

  • John Galvin

  • Elizabeth Vicary

  • Rochelle Ballantyne

  • Pobo Efekoro

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