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Brooklyn Castle

2012-10-19 · 101 min · ★ 6.8

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.

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Directors
Katie Dellamaggiore
Production companies
Rescued Media, Doc Society
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released
Revenue
USD 219,407

Top Cast

John GalvinHimself
Elizabeth VicaryHerself
Rochelle BallantyneHerself
Pobo EfekoroHimself
Justus WilliamsHimself
Alex StripunskyHimself
James StallingsHimself
Maurice AshleyMaurice AshleyHimself
Alexis ParedesHimself
Miron SherHimself
Patrick JohnstonHimself
Fortunato RubioHimself
James Black, JrHimself

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