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Rossellini writes, directs and stars in the Sundance Channel's Green Porno a series of short films that charmingly portray the sexual habits of oft-ignored animals. The first season had Rossellini tackling bugs; Season two, which finds her focused on marine life, premiered on April 1. (See pictures of 10 animals facing extinction...
TIME: How did Green Porno first come about? Rossellini: The idea came about because Robert Redford wanted to experiment in short film format, and one of the missions of Sundance is to be on environmental subjects. So, I had the two elements: something short and something environmental. I have been personally always very interested in animal behavior-not particularly the sex life, but on animal behavior in general. I thought it would make a fun and appealing series to explain how animals mate-especially animals that are not mammalian, that are far from us. It's a wild world...
What's next? One of the things that I'm thinking for the next one is 'a walk in the park.' So squirrels, pigeons, ducks, sparrows. Green Porno has turned out to be more successful than we had planned. Now Sundance is going to show them on television and the Independent Film Channel shows them before feature films. So they're viewed on the big screen-and they look great, I have...
...directors, and Foot Fist did get noticed. This was thanks in part to the movie's rising star (and co-writer and UNCSA classmate) Danny McBride, who enlivened last year's Drillbit Taylor, Tropic Thunder and the Rogen-starring Pineapple Express, directed by another UNCSA alum, David Gordon Green. The stars were aligned; connections were secured. (Hill also works with McBride on the HBO series Eastbound and Down.) The kid was ready for his jump to the bigs...
Despite worries that the current recession may prompt Americans to save on fees and file their own taxes come April 15, more people than ever are going into accounting--some 60,000 now earn accounting degrees annually. The green-eyeshade brigade may even benefit from tax changes in the recent stimulus package. Such updates are always followed by confusion, a boon for tax experts...