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Brooklyn Castle

10/19/2012

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1hr 41min

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Documentary

Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • John Galvin
  • Elizabeth Vicary
  • Rochelle Ballantyne
  • Pobo Efekoro
  • Justus Williams

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Rescued Media

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    John Galvin

    Himself

    Elizabeth Vicary

    Herself

    Rochelle Ballantyne

    Herself

    Pobo Efekoro

    Himself

    Justus Williams

    Himself

    Alex Stripunsky

    Himself

    James Stallings

    Himself

    Maurice Ashley

    Himself

    Alexis Paredes

    Himself

    Miron Sher

    Himself

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