Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Brooklyn Castle / Producers Distribution Agency presents ; a Rescued Media production ; in association with Indelible Marks and Chicken & Egg Pictures ; producers, Katie Dellamaggiore, Nelson Dellamaggiore, Brian Schulz ; directed by Katie Dellamaggiore.

Publisher, Date:

[Los Angeles, Calif.] : Millennium Entertainment, [2013]

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

region 1

DVD video

Summary:

I.S.318 is 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. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG; some language.

Subjects:

Chess players -- New York (State) -- New York.

Junior high school students -- New York (State) -- New York.

Education, Urban.

Urban schools.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Other Author:

Dellamaggiore, Katie, film producer, film director.

Dellamaggiore, Nelson (Film producer), film producer.