Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle

6.8 | 2012-10-19 | Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Katie Dellamaggiore Director
Katherine Kennedy Art Direction
Brian Schulz Producer
Geoff Gibson Executive Producer
Brian Schulz Director of Photography
Nelson Dellamaggiore Editor
Katie Dellamaggiore Producer
Nelson Dellamaggiore Producer
B. Satz Original Music Composer
Robert McLellan Executive Producer

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