Brooklyn Castle
“Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318”
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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Cast
13 people
Katie Dellamaggiore Director · B. Satz Composer Brian Schulz Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $219K · United States release October 19, 2012 · Produced in United States
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$219,407
Production
Rescued Media
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Doc Society
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United States
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
Sweden · October 19, 2012
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United States · October 19, 2012
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