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Press Kit
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Brooklyn Castle Full Press Notes (Word | PDF)
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Brooklyn Castle Official Poster (JPG)
Brooklyn Castle Trailer (Watch/Embed via YouTube)
Awards
Winner of the Audience Award – South by Southwest (SXSW) Film 2012 Documentary Spotlight
Winner of the Audience Award – Newport Beach Film Festival 2012
Top 10 Audience Favourites – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2012
Best New Director Award – Brooklyn Film Festival 2012
44th NAACP Image Awards – Nominee for Outstanding Documentary
Praise for Brooklyn Castle
“If you want to see what may well be the most optimistic, inspiring and downright thrilling movie released all year – then absolutely do not miss Katie Dellamaggiore’s documentary Brooklyn Castle”
– Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
“Irresistible”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“I love this film”
– Roger Ebert
“Enlightening, inspiring and expertly crafted”
- Stephanie Merry, Washington Post
“A can’t-miss film”
- Kenneth Turan, LA Times
“I don’t know diddly about chess, and I still loved it.”
– Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Media Links
- ESPN: ‘Brooklyn Castle’ doc calls chess a sport
- NPR: See a clip from the outstanding ‘Brooklyn Castle,’ a film about chess and life
- Salon: ‘Brooklyn Castle’: An inner-city school where chess legends are made
- CNN’s The Starting Point: Documentary showcases program that transforms underprivileged kids into chess champs
- The Today Show: Chess team opens doors for Brooklyn Students
- TIME: Brooklyn Castle: The Cool Kids Play Chess
- New York Daily News: Brooklyn Castle – 4 Stars
- The New York Times: At a Brooklyn School, the Cool Kids Are the Nation’s Chess Champions
- Life + Times blog (Jay-Z)
- MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show: Middle school chess masters capture national title, admiration
- Forbes: Caines Academy Brooklyn Castle tells how Inner City Middle School Wins with Chess
- The Wall Street Journal: I.S. 318′s Crowning Achievement
- The Atlantic Cities: The Dark Cloud Hanging Over the Feel-Good Inner City Education Story of the Week
- The New York Daily News: Mike checks IS 318 chess champs, tells them he is ‘really impressed’
- The New York Times – SchoolBook: Middle School Chess Team Wins National High School Championship
- Dallas Film Society: Young Kings Struggle to Avoid Becoming Pawns in Brooklyn Castle
- Greenpoint Gazette: IS 318′s Chess Team Lights Up the Silver Screen
- What (Not) To Doc – Basil Tsiokos
- Center for Social Media blog (Patricia Aufderheide): Kids, Chess and Public Schools
- ThinkProgress: Budget Cuts, New York’s Exam School System, and the Joys of ‘Brooklyn Castle’
- CinemaBlend.com: SXSW Wrap-Up: Brooklyn Castle, Audience Award Winners And Our Biggest Disappointment
- SXSW documentary premiere earns checkmate – YNN – Your News Now
- Austin American Statesman (austin.com) SXSW photo gallery
- Film School Rejects: SXSW 2012 Review: Uplifting ‘Brooklyn Castle’ Will Take Your Heart
- MSNBC’s The Grio Profiles I.S. 318 Chess Team Member and Brooklyn Castle Star Justus Williams
- Where Geeks Are Rock Stars: Documentary Spotlights an Urban School’s Champion Chess Team (GOOD Education)
- Black Voices: Your Weekend Roundup (Huffington Post)
- I.S.318 Chess Team Wins a Big Battle (New York Times SchoolBook Education Blog)
- Brooklyn Power Company Donates $25,000 to Struggling I.S. 318 Chess Team (New York Daily News)
- I.S. 318 Chess Coach/Assistant Principal Fights Budget Cuts, Pays Out of Pocket for Program (Yahoo!)
- Brooklyn Chess Team Struggling to Stay Afloat Following Series of Budget Cuts (New York Daily News)
- BritDoc – The Good Pitch NY 2011
- Working Films – Reel Education
- The Fledgling Fund – Winter 2011 Grantees
- Chicken and Egg Pictures – Story Leads to Action
- Kickstarter Film Festival