Brooklyn Castle
Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318
Movie - 101mins
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.
Cast:
Alexis
Paredes
Miron
Sher
Patrick
Johnston
Fortunato
Rubio
James
Black,
John
Galvin
Elizabeth
Vicary
Rochelle
Ballantyne
Pobo
Efekoro
Justus
Williams
Alex
Stripunsky
James
Stallings
Maurice
Ashley
Alexis
Paredes
Miron
Sher
Patrick
Johnston
Fortunato
Rubio
James
Black,
John
Galvin
Elizabeth
Vicary
Rochelle
Ballantyne
Pobo
Efekoro
Justus
Williams