Director JUSTINSUPERSTAR (US 2022) 81 min
Filmmaker Justin Johnson (a.k.a. Justinsuperstar) has a secret. In a tucked-away back room of his conservative Christian parents’ home, his father meticulously creates…prosthetic nipples. After recovering from her mastectomy, Justin’s outgoing mother, Randi, found it emotionally painful to look at her nipple-less chest. When doctors couldn’t provide a convincing solution to Randi’s problem, her husband, Brian, got to work. After painstaking research and a lot of trial and error, he achieved results which impressed not only Randi but also the doctors and eventually thousands of other breast cancer survivors as well. It wasn’t until Justin pulled back the curtain on their industrious backroom factory that he found a deep appreciation for his parents’ love. His resulting film, a 2021 DocPitch Finalist, is as much an homage to all underdog fathers as it is to resilient and loving mothers everywhere.