Brooklyn Castle

documentary

The focus is a school in Brooklyn which places heavy emphasis on mastering chess. Students (all poor, most minority) can study chess for one period every day. They have been very successful...the players are the jocks of the school.

During filming budget cuts threaten to undermine or eliminate after school programs, including chess. The film follows the story, and several of the students, for three years as even this esoteric avenue out is being closed.

So it goes...

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