film

Brooklyn Castle

2012

Completed

Director

Katie Dellamaggiore

 

Impact campaign support

Went to Good Pitch

 

Film Details

Runtime: 101 minutes

 

Doc Society Involvement

Docsoc helped with an Impact Campaign

Docsoc helped at Good Pitch

 

Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at a year in the lives of several young teens at Brooklyn, New York’s Intermediate School 318 – where 65% of students are from homes living below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have best junior high chess team in the country. The school’s chess and other afterschool programs have given its students a chance for success they likely would not have had otherwise and it has transformed I.S. 318 from a school once cited as being “in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. Now, budget cuts threaten those strides.

Outreach Work Supported

Hire of an outreach director to pursue Afterschool Activity funding and screenings with potential partners.

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Subjects

Society

Good Pitch Events

  • New York 2011

Reviews

Brooklyn Castle is inspiring stuff that grabs you by the throat and will leave you cheering - quietly of course. No shouting in a chess match.

Enlightening, inspiring and expertly crafted.

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