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.
John Galvin
as Himself
Elizabeth Vicary
as Herself
Rochelle Ballantyne
as Herself
Pobo Efekoro
as Himself
Justus Williams
as Himself
Alex Stripunsky
as Himself
James Stallings
as Himself
Maurice Ashley
as Himself
Alexis Paredes
as Himself
Miron Sher
as Himself
Patrick Johnston
as Himself
Fortunato Rubio
as Himself
