Brooklyn Castle (2012)
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.
Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
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John Galvin as Himself |
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Elizabeth Vicary as Herself |
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Rochelle Ballantyne as Herself |
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Pobo Efekoro as Himself |
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Justus Williams as Himself |
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Alex Stripunsky as Himself |
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James Stallings as Himself |
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Maurice Ashley as Himself |
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Alexis Paredes as Himself |
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Miron Sher as Himself |
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Patrick Johnston as Himself |
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Fortunato Rubio as Himself |
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James Black, Jr as Himself |
| Directing | Katie Dellamaggiore | Director |
| Art | Katherine Kennedy | Art Direction |
| Production | Brian Schulz | Producer |
| Production | Geoff Gibson | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Brian Schulz | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nelson Dellamaggiore | Editor |
| Production | Katie Dellamaggiore | Producer |
| Production | Nelson Dellamaggiore | Producer |
| Sound | B. Satz | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Robert McLellan | Executive Producer |
