And about one of the stars of the movie, per the New York Daily News:
Rochelle Ballantyne is getting ready to the chess world in check.I wish it wasn't news that Rochelle Ballantyne's triumph is special because of skin color or ethnicity. It is. So perhaps in time our society will improve to where it won't be news, to where the incredible act of a kid becoming a chess master is big news in itself.
The 17 year-old Brooklyn high school senior and graduate of I.S. 318, a middle school famous for churning out chess champs, is working toward becoming the first African-American female chess master.
Ballantyne, who is the lone female star of the recent documentary Brooklyn Castle,™ which sheds light on the Williamsburg middle school’s chess program and its impact on its students.
Filmmakers spent the 2009-2010 school year following the kids at I.S. 318 where 70% of the students live below the poverty line.
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