IFC Midnight has nabbed the U.S. rights to Emma Tammi’s horror Western, The Wind, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
The indie, which screened as part of the Midnight Madness sidebar at TIFF and is headed this weekend to Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, has a 2019 release in the works from the sister label to IFC Films and Sundance Selects.
The Wind, an oater with a horror spin, stars Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles and Ashley Zuckerman. It follows a woman who moves with her husband to the American frontier, where an evil presence manifests and infects her with paranoia.
Soapbox Films and Divide/Conquer produced The Wind. “Emma Tammi’s impressive debut into narrative filmmaking starring a breakout performance from Caitlin Gerard packs the kind of fierce ingenuity we are continually searching for when we distribute films,” Lisa Schwartz and Jonathan Sehring, co-presidents of IFC Films/Sundance Selects, said in a statement.
The deal for The Wind was negotiated by IFC Midnight, with ICM Partners and XYZ Films acting on behalf of the filmmakers.
