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Emma Tammi Talks THE WIND and Female Focus – Brandy McDonnell interviews

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Emma Tammi’s feature film directorial debut “The Wind” opens with a visceral, gruesome and distinctly feminine image: A plainswoman emerging from her frontier cabin, the front of her gown covered in blood and her arms holding a bundled baby.

“One of the things that really drew me to the opening was that it was so bold. And I thought, ‘If we’re gonna set the mood for what is certainly in the first half of the film is a pretty slow burn with something as graphic and gory, it should still have the stillness of imagery to really let us focus … and really let us settle in that moment on the characters,” Tammi told me in a recent phone interview. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell is the longtime features writer covering arts and entertainment for The Oklahoman and Oklahoman.com, part of the USA Today Network. In 2025, she garnered a Rabkin Prize, which recognizes the nation’s top visual arts writers. An approved critic for RottenTomatoes.com, she is a member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle and of the Alliance of Wome\n Film Journalists, for which she writes The Week in Women news blog.