Brooklyn Castle is a documentary film about Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, an inner-city public school where an after-school chess program has built the most winning junior high school chess team in the country and the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation's national high school championship. The film follows five of the school’s chess team members for one year, and documents their challenges and triumphs both on and off the chessboard.
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All the students in the film learned chess and honed their chess skills in the Chess in the Schools Program in New York City. Chess in the Schools is a nonprofit that has taught to more than 500,000 public school students how to play chess. In addition to teaching chess, Chess in the Schools runs scholastic tournaments almost every weekend. The students of IS 318 join more than 700 students every weekend competing in the Chess in the Schools tournaments. Additionally once IS 318 students enter high school, many of them join the Chess in the Schools College Bound Program which prepares students for college in an intensive four-year program.
Remake rights have been acquired by Sony and Scott Rudin. Rudin's other works include co-producing the acclaimed film Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Brooklyn Castle was initially released during the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival on March 11, 2012. Over the next several months it was shown during at least eleven other film festivals winning a total of three festival awards to date. The film will be re-released to U.S. theaters on October 19, 2012.
Brooklyn Castle
Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore
Produced by Katie Dellamaggiore
Nelson Dellamaggiore
Brian Schulz
Music by B. Satz
Cinematography Brian Schulz
Editing by Nelson Dellamaggiore
Release date(s)
March 11, 2012 (South by Southwest Film Festival)
October 19, 2012 (United States)
Running time 101 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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