The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

Director of Photography: Neil Holcomb
Animation, Art, and Additional Cinematography: David Russo
Additional Cinematography: Benjamin F. Kasulke
Editor: Billy McMillin
Sound Design: Tom Hambleton
Music: "Awesome"
Production Design: Christopher Swenson
Casting: Adrienne Stern
Costume Designer: Rebecca Luke

"... (a) spirited and wildly imaginative debut feature..."

- The Sundance Film Festival

"'The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle' could only be conceived in the surreal mix engendered by today's modern world of biochemical engineering, digital wizardry, corporate deception (and) high art...
Dory, a computer programmer experiencing a crisis of faith, is laid off from his suit-and-tie job and must resort to cleaning toilets with a brown-collar band of janitorial misfits. Unbeknownst to him, he is made the subject of a bizarre experiment involving deliciously addictive cookies that stimulate 'oven freshness' by warming in your mouth when eaten.
It turns out that the cookies cause spectacular visions, wild mood swings, and quasi-pregnancies in the male janitors. The men must pull together to become midwives for one another as each gives birth to a small, beautiful, immaculately conceived blue fish.
A character-driven comedy enriched with Russo's innovative animation, 'The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle' is a lighthearted film with a liberated vision - the idea that you may find peace in the face of uncertainty if you simply accept the very things that are beyond your control."
--Shari Frilot, The Sundance Film Festival

Quirky, humorous and dark, filmmaker David Russo's feature debut is a stylish meditation on the meaning of garbage in our throwaway society. The film features Russo's unique visual design and animation, as well as a hallucinatory animation sequence by Dutch animator Rosto. Edited by Billy McMillin ("Iraq in Fragments"), and featuring a stellar ensemble cast, including Marshall Allman, Natasha Lyonne, Tania Raymonde, Tygh Runyan, and Vince Vieluf, "Little Dizzle" is a bittersweet, post-modern fable.

From Director David Russo:
"'The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle' is a film about hope for the hope-averse. It's also life affirming, which is a term you hear a lot, but this film is life affirming in the literal, not anthropomorphic sense. I hope at the end of the film audiences think about their own lives - and maybe life in general - a little differently. 'The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle' was extremely challenging to get made due to perceived 'toilet humor' in the script. But in the words of a janitor in the film, when asked about his janitorial-themed artwork, he replies, 'Yes, there's toilet humor, but there's also toilet sadness, toilet triumph, toilet a lot of things, because I'm a janitor and this is my world.' I can't defend my movie any better than that."

"The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle" was produced in association with Northwest Film Forum as part of its Start to Finish program and is the first Seattle film to be "incentivized" by WashintonFilmWorks (www.washingtonfilmworks.org). "Little Dizzle" also received generous support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. (read less)

Director of Photography: Neil Holcomb
Animation, Art, and Additional Cinematography: David Russo
Additional Cinematography: Benjamin F. Kasulke
Editor: Billy McMillin
Sound Design: Tom Hambleton
Music: "Awesome"
Production Design: Christopher Swenson
Casting: Adrienne Stern
Costume Designer: Rebecca Luke

"... (a) spirited and wildly imaginative debut feature..."

- The Sundance Film Festival

"'The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle' could only be conceived in the surreal mix engendered by... (read more)