Kickstarter Awards
Brooklyn Castle, aka Chess Movie, received an honorable mention in the Best Documentary Film Project category of the 2010 Kickstarter Awards.
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Rescued Media
We're filmmakers from Brooklyn, New York & we are currently in post-production on BROOKLYN CASTLE, a documentary about the best junior high school chess program in the nation, Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, New York.
Email us at - rescuedmedianyc@gmail.com
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Email us at - rescuedmedianyc@gmail.com
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Brooklyn Castle
It’s been a while since our last post and I’m happy to say a lot has happened since. After 3 months of editing we are very close to completing a rough cut of the film. We’ve brought on some talented artists to work with us - Brian Satz, our composer, Alex Krawitz, our animation producer and Mitch Paone, our lead animator. Together with these guys we’re creating what we think is something really special and hope to share it with the world (or at least Brooklyn) in the Spring of 2011. We also have a title. Finally! A brainstorm session with our best friend Kate led to the idea back in September and of course our first idea ended up being our favorite. That’s the way it goes. More updates to come in the New Year. In the meantime here it is…
Story Leads to Action - Blog Post
A wrap up of Story Leads to Action hosted by Chicken and Egg. It was a great night and very inspiring.
First Move, a scholastic chess program is featured on NBC Today Show.
CHESS MOVIE at STORY LEADS TO ACTION
Join us on Oct. 21st at Story Leads to Action presented by Chicken and Egg Pictures, Working Fims and The 92Y Tribeca.
Story Leads to Action is a monthly-series at the 92Y Tribeca that strives to adapt Working Films’ audience engagement methodologies into a three-hour public event. Chicken & Egg-funded filmmakers (that’s us!) come together with strategic cohorts of NY-based activists, educators and community organizers to field-test, “design” and brainstorm on-the-spot community/audience engagement strategies for their films.
This month’s Story Leads to Action is a Back-to-School celebration of movies and movements dedicated to education, growth, hope and community resilience - featuring excerpts and scenes from four films-in-progress each one uniquely exploring the possibility, fierce promise and politics of educating the next generation of global citizens.
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NY TIMES ARTICLE - 10/05/10
“Murrow was founded in 1974 as a progressive high school that emphasized creativity, independence and the “communication arts.” When its television studios opened in the late 1970s, Mr. Anderson recalled, they had huge Hitachi color cameras and audio equipment that he once smuggled out of the building to record the Beastie Boys, a band founded in 1979 by a classmate, Adam Yauch…The fate of the studio illustrates how difficult it is to maintain an expensive program in a public school, especially one that is dependent on constantly changing technology.”
Wall Street Journal article - 9.27.10
Innovative Concept Academy in St. Louis uses chess to teach self-control and critical thinking to troubled students
Chess Drum Article- 9.24.10
Congratulations Justus on making master and making history at 12 years old!
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New cards thanks to our best friend Kate.
