Bridge Award Honours Local Emerging Producer

Halifax producer Preston Hudson is one step closer to creating his next film for television as Film Nova Scotia and CBC Television awarded him the 2010 Bridge Award.

A panel of industry professionals chose Mr. Hudson's Heart of Rhyme for the award that provides up-and-coming talent a chance to produce a program for broadcast in the Atlantic region.

"I feel privileged to be the recipient of this award and I am happy to share this accomplishment with my writer and director Cory Bowles, director of photography Jeff Wheaton and the many others who have worked hard to get the project to this point," said Mr. Hudson. "I know the history of this award and what doors will be opened to us because of it."

Heart of Rhyme tells the story of Saxton Mahoney, an elderly man who receives a heart transplant. After the surgery, when he finds himself with the power to see rhythms and an unexplained skill for rapping, he decides he must seek out the origin of his donor.

The project will receive $20,000 in equity funding from Film Nova Scotia and an equal amount, in licences and services, from the CBC, which will broadcast the project.

More information on the CBC/Film Nova Scotia Bridge Award can be found at www.film.ns.ca/programs_bridgeaward.asp .