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| CBS4 Media Alert |
December 4, 2007 |
CBS4 Reporters, Photographers, Producers Win Regional Emmy Awards
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ORLANDO -- Several WFOR-TV/CBS4 anchors, reporters, writers, photographers, and producers were honored Saturday night in Orlando at the 2007 Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Awards.
 CBS4 Chief Investigative Reporter Michele Gillen, CBS4 Photographer Abel Castillo, and CBS4 Producer Giovani Benitez won an Emmy award in the category of "Continuing Coverage" for "The Forgotten Floor," an exclusive investigation into the deplorable treatment mentally ill inmates receive at the Miami-Dade Pre-trial Detention Center. A screening of the series opened hearings before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee investigating the warehousing of the mentally ill in America's prisons and jails. The series also triggered tens of millions of dollars in emergency aide for treatment of inmates with mental illness.
Gillen, now a 25-time Emmy recipient, also received an Emmy for "On-Camera Investigative Reporter" for "The Forgotten Floor" and Castillo won a second Emmy for "Individual Achievement in Photography" for his work on the series. Benitez is a participant  of the Emma Bowen Foundation scholarship program for minority students who works part-time at CBS4 and is a full-time college student at Florida International University. With this award, he becomes one of the youngest Emmy recipients in local television.
CBS4 also won an Emmy in the category of Historical and Cultural for "The Real Miami Vice: Outstanding Deco," a multi-part series executive produced by Mary Killeen that examined how the Art Deco style and the illegal drug trade shaped the image of Miami and Miami Beach for the nation.
 CBS4's Promotion Producers Carla Hernandez, Hikmat Kilzi, and Graphics Artist Samuel Hernandez II each won Emmy awards for "Sports Wrap."
The Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences  Awards, a non-profit Florida corporation dedicated to excellence in television, is made up of television professionals from Florida, Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles and New Orleans, Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, Thomasville, Georgia and Puerto Rico.
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