Brooklyn Castle (2012)
Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318
101 min
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.
- Release date
- October 19, 2012
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $219,407
Trailer
Cast
- Rochelle Ballantyne as Self
- Oghenakpobo Efekoro as Self
- Patrick Johnston as Self
- Alexis Paredes Toledo as Self
- Justus Williams as Self
- Elizabeth Spiegel as Self
- John Galvin as Self
- Michelle Ballantyne as Self
- Viviana Paredes Toledo as Self
- Je'Daiah Ballantyne as Self
Crew
- Katie Dellamaggiore · Director
- Katie Dellamaggiore · Producer
- Nelson Dellamaggiore · Producer
- Brian Schulz · Producer
- Brian Satz · Composer
- Brian Schulz · Cinematographer
- Nelson Dellamaggiore · Editor