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Exclusive: Ahead of the September theatrical release of Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory, an award-winning feature doc from Daytime Emmy-winning director Justin Johnson (aka Justinsuperstar), Mayim Bialik has boarded the project as an executive producer.

Along with Hayley Lozitsky Weisser and Alyssa Wilden, she’s exec producing for her Sad Clown Productions, which has also acquired narrative rights to the project. Check out a trailer above.

Humorous and heartwarming, Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory shines a light on the story of Johnson’s conservative parents. When mother Randi is diagnosed with breast cancer, her introverted husband Brian, a traditional family man, transforms their Midwest modest home into a secret prosthetic nipple laboratory, an act of love that blossoms into a truly unexpected business, kept hidden from their church, small-town community and five unsuspecting children.

Opening the Milwaukee Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, the film being distributed by...

Exclusive: Visit Films has sold doc Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory to Kino Lorber for the United States.

The film tells the story of the Johnson family and focuses on Randi, Justin’s mother, after she is diagnosed with breast cancer and her husband Brian, a conservative Midwest family man, who embarks on a journey to boost her morale, which blossoms into an unexpected homespun prosthetic nipple business, which is kept under the radar from their friends, church and five unsuspecting children.

The film is directed by Justin Johnson (aka Justinsuperstar), whose credits include Double Digits: The Story of a Neighborhood Movie Star and Behind The FX, which won a Daytime Emmy.

Kino Lorber is releasing on April 2, 2024. The sale was negotiated by Visit’s President Ryan Kampe with Kino Lorber’s Senior Vice President, Wendy Lidell.

The movie, which won the Best Feature Audience Award at Milwaukee Film Festival,...

"This is a part of their love story." A festival promo trailer is now available for this documentary film titled Mom & Dad's Nipple Factory, the second feature from up-and-coming filmmaker "Justinsuperstar" (yes that's what he really goes by). The film is described as a touching and inspiring documentary that shows the power of love, perseverance, and innovation and is a must-see for anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer. The doc just kicked off its 2023 festival tour as the opening night film at the beloved 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival in April, followed by stops at Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and Doclands in Northern California this May. The film is about the director's parent's tenacious pursuit of "the perfect prosthetic nipple, transforming what began as an intimate labor of love into a 'factory' with the power to change thousands of survivors' lives." A great title for this...