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.
Year: 2012
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Rescued Media
Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Cast: John Galvin, Elizabeth Vicary, Rochelle Ballantyne, Pobo Efekoro, Justus Williams, Alex Stripunsky
Crew: Katie Dellamaggiore (Director), Robert McLellan (Executive Producer), Nelson Dellamaggiore (Editor), B. Satz (Original Music Composer), Geoff Gibson (Executive Producer), Brian Schulz (Producer)
Runtime: 101 minutes
Release: Oct 19, 2012
IMDb: 6.80/10 by 19 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 219
Keyword : chess, scholarship, competition, chess champion, chess tournament, public school, woman director
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