Hillsborough Producer's 'Saint Joseph' To Screen At Film Festival

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — Hillsborough's Tim Stollery (a three-time Emmy Award-winning producer) film "Saint Joseph" will be screened as part of The Trenton Film Society’s First-Ever Regional Documentary Film Festival on Saturday.

"Getting selected for the Trenton Film Festival was a major goal all along because this venue —the Passage Theatre, AKA Mill Hill Playhouse, s very close to the former bank parking lot — the location where Joe spent hours each weekday telling stories, praying, feeding and blessing his 'angels,' the squirrels, birds, pigeons, and stray cats, especially his favorite cat, 'Trusty,' named because she came to trust Joe," said Stollery.

Stollery teamed up with the CNJLM to create the documentary film "Saint Joseph," a documentary about Joseph Albright, reporter and columnist for the Hudson County Jersey Journal who was believed to have been the longest-serving statehouse reporter in American history.

"We at the corporation are proud to announce that 'Saint Joseph' has been selected for this year’s Trenton film festival," said Amanda Richardson, executive director of the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media(CNJLM). "We had a great showing last year at The Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park and now we get to show the film to Joe Albright’s friends, colleagues and neighbors from the statehouse and the neighborhood where he was a fixture for all those years."

Albright filed stories and columns of interest to Hudson County readers for 58 years, having begun his tenure with the Journal in October 1964. His final column appeared on May 5, 2022, the day he died at age 93.

Saint Joseph will be part of a block of films beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton.

Saint Joseph premiered at the Garden State Film Festival in 2023.

Screenings for this year are scheduled at noon, 3 p.m., and 6 p.m., followed by a reception and awards ceremony. This year’s event includes locally made documentaries from shorts to features on global and national issues with local impact - from the environment to addiction treatment, early childhood education to women’s health, to quirky local characters.

Tickets can be purchased at the Trenton Film Society website, trentonfilmsociety.org/ , or at the door. Tickets are $6 for a single block of movies, $5 for students, and $12 for an all-access pass to three shows, $10 for students.

Watch the trailer of Saint Joseph below:

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