- Status: Completed
- Score: 7.2/10
- Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
- Country: USA
- Year: 2012
- Duration: 101 min
- Genres: Documentary,
- Production:
Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school’s champion chess team.
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 pubic school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
Je'Daiah Ballantyne, Rochelle Ballantyne, Oghenakpobo Efekoro, Christiana Inuwere, Elizabeth Johnston, Tommy Johnston, Juan Paredes, Elizabeth Spiegel, Michelle Ballantyne, Pamela Ballard, John Galvin, Ovoie Inuwere, Patrick Johnston, Mikael-Rhey Mongroo, Fred Rubino,
