Isabella Rossellini’s ‘Mammas’

The Takeaway

This Sunday marks a year since last Mother’s Day, and while many of us say thanks in the form of a card, a text or a bunch of flowers, celebrated actress, model and environmental activist Isabella Rossellini says thanks through a short film series called “Mammas.”
After writing and directing the Webby-award winning Sundance series “Green Porno” and “Green Porno Seduce Me,” which celebrates the mating rituals and sex lives of animal. Rossellini turns her attention to exploring creatures’ rites of passage into motherhood.  

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