After years in the works, the short film Spinners has officially landed on YouTube — and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you.
Produced back in 2014, Spinners tells the story of two teenagers, Jace and Derek, trying to get by as sign spinners in a small desert town hit hard by the economic recession. When harassment from local bullies pushes Jace toward a bad decision, it’s a single mom living out of her car who steps in to help. It’s a quiet, human story — and one that hits close to home for anyone who’s ever spun an arrow on a street corner.
The film also features an early performance from Timothée Chalamet, long before he became one of Hollywood’s biggest names.
Spinners started life as a Kickstarter-funded project back in 2014. Like a lot of indie films, it took a long road of scheduling hurdles and behind-the-scenes work to get from production to a finished release — but the team stuck with it, and the final film is finally out in the world.
The film was directed and edited by Erik L. Barnes, written by Cami Delavigne, and produced by Mary Pat Bentel and Alesia Glidewell, with Barnacle Films behind the production.
Our Connection to the Film
Here at AArrow Sign Spinners, this release means something extra special to us. Our own Justin “Spin” Brown — credited in the film’s “Special Thanks” — worked directly with the cast, training the actors on how to spin the arrow-shaped signs so the performances would feel authentic on screen. If the sign spinning in Spinners looks real, that’s because it is.
It’s been a long road from production to release, but we’re proud that a piece of AArrow’s sign-spinning expertise helped bring this story to life.
