Spin (2015 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Spin

| image = On demand release poster.jpg

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| director = Noah Workman

| producer = Patrick T. Rousseau
Wilson Cleveland

| screenplay = Wilson Cleveland
Yuri Baranovsky

| starring = Hartley Sawyer
Wilson Cleveland
Andrew Jernigan

| studio = Unboxd Media
Iris Mediaworks

| distributor = Amazon Prime
Vimeo on Demand

| released = {{Film date|2015|2|6|}}

| runtime = 14 minutes

| country = United States

| budget = $12,000{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/03/20/web-video-creators-take-lessons-on-how-to-promo-from-branded-entertainment/|title=Web Video Creators Take Lessons on How to Promo From Branded Entertainment|last=Shields|first=Mike|date=March 20, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=April 28, 2018|via=Dow Jones & Company, Inc.}}

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Spin, sometimes stylized as SPiN, is a 2015 short film drama directed by Noah Workman and written by Wilson Cleveland, who also stars. The film takes place over the course of a contentious live television interview between a Wall Street executive played by Hartley Sawyer and a financial journalist played by Cleveland.

Reception

The film received a 2016 Webby Award honor for Individual Short (Drama){{Cite web |url=https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2016/online-film-video/general-film/drama-individual-short-or-episode/spin/ |title=SPiN |website=The Webby Awards |access-date=2018-06-24}} and generally favorable reviews from critics. In his March 6, 2015 IndieWire review, Joseph Ehrman-Dupre called SPiN a "sharp, smart satire" with writing "full of "spitfire one-liners" and{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/the-art-of-the-short-film-spin-20150306|title=The Art of the Short Film: SPiN|last=Ehrman-Dupre|first=Joseph|date=March 6, 2015|publisher=IndieWire|accessdate=April 27, 2018}} NewMediaRockstars' Evan DeSimone credited the writing as being "Sorkin-esque in the best sense of the word."{{cite web|url=http://newmediarockstars.com/2015/02/give-wilson-clevelands-latest-film-a-spin/|title=Give Wilson Cleveland's Latest Film A SPiN|last=DeSimone|first=Evan|date=February 6, 2015|publisher=NewMediaRockstars|accessdate=April 27, 2018}} Tubefilter writer Sam Gutelle complained while "Wall Street corruption is a well-tread topic," SPiN is "A smart, twisty take on the world of high finance and media distortion."{{cite web|url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2015/02/06/spin-short-film-wilson-cleveland-hartley-sawyer/|title=SPiN Twists And Turns Through Newsroom Interview|last=Gutelle|first=Sam|date=February 6, 2015|work=Tubefilter|publisher=Tubefilter, Inc.|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}

Cast

  • Wilson Cleveland as James Locke
  • Hartley Sawyer as Scott Angelus
  • Andrew Jernigan as Entrepreneur
  • Lewis Raymond Taylor as Lewis
  • Ronnie Flynn as Entrepreneur
  • Prophecy Onasis as Proph
  • Bastiano Farran as Guest actor
  • Jordan Alexander King as King Komm.

References

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