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Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 19, 2012

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

68%

Original Title

Brooklyn Castle

Production Companies

Rescued Media

Director

Katie Dellamaggiore

Revenue

$219,407

Description

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.