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Brooklyn Castle ( 2012) is a documentary film about Intermediate School 318, an inner-city public school in Brooklyn, New York.
Mar 11, 2012 · Brooklyn Castle is a film about a junior high school in New York City that has the best chess team in the country. It follows the students and teachers as they face challenges and triumphs amidst budget cuts and poverty.
Brooklyn Castle is a film that tells the inspiring story of the I.S. 318 chess team from Brooklyn, NY. In theaters October 19, 2012.
Oct 19, 2012 · Brooklyn Castle is a warm, engaging, and even uplifting documentary about chess-playing whiz kids. Chess helps transforms a New York school into one of the city's best, but recession-driven...
Sep 20, 2012 · Ironically, the biggest obstacle thrust upon them arises not from other competitors but from recessionary budget cuts to all the extracurricular activities at their school. BROOKLYN CASTLE...
Sep 27, 2012 · Follow five students from Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, New York, as they compete in national chess tournaments and face personal challenges. Learn how chess helps them overcome poverty, ADHD, and discrimination in this inspiring and award-winning film.
Most astoundingly, I.S. 318 is a Brooklyn school that serves mostly minority students from families living below the poverty line. Brooklyn Castle is the exhilarating story of five of the school's aspiring young players and how chess became the school's unlikely inspiration for academic success.
