Brooklyn Castle
Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318
6.8
20 votes
2012
1h 41m
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.
Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore
Top cast
Details
Status
Released
Release date
October 19, 2012
Budget
—
Revenue
$219.4K
Language
English
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