Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle

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

2012 en 101 minutes

Rating: 6.8

Plot

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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Cast

John Galvin

John Galvin

Himself

Elizabeth Vicary

Elizabeth Vicary

Herself

Rochelle Ballantyne

Rochelle Ballantyne

Herself

Pobo Efekoro

Pobo Efekoro

Himself

Justus Williams

Justus Williams

Himself

Alex Stripunsky

Alex Stripunsky

Himself

James Stallings

James Stallings

Himself

Maurice Ashley

Maurice Ashley

Himself

Alexis Paredes

Alexis Paredes

Himself

Miron Sher

Miron Sher

Himself

Patrick Johnston

Patrick Johnston

Himself

Fortunato Rubio

Fortunato Rubio

Himself

James Black, Jr

James Black, Jr

Himself

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