Brooklyn Castle
It's deeply satisfying watching these public school, hard-knock kids win, and Ms. Dellamaggiore knows it.
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 as a chess player, 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 pubic school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
Runtime
102
Language
English
Director
Katie Dellamaggiore
FEATURED REVIEW
Kayla Webley, TIME Magazine
The teenaged members of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate 318 are the Yankees of chess. They’ve won 26 national chess titles—more than any other school in the country, which is an especially impressive feat when you consider the fact that more than 70% of I.S. 318′s inner city students ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 10.26.12 - 11.08.12
Town Center 5 10.26.12 - 11.08.12
Monica Film Center 11.10.12 - 11.17.12
Claremont 5 11.10.12 - 11.25.12
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 3.12.21 - 4.15.21
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