The 44th Annual Northern California Area EMMY® Award Ceremony last Saturday at the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco presented ABS-CBN International’s Lifestyle Network channel with its first Emmy win after reviewing 896 entries received in 67 categories for work produced in 2014. The channel won for its original series “Haute the Record” feature segment on Rafe Totengco, celebrated New York-based Filipino fashion designer renowned for his namesake handbag collection, Rafé New York, at leading U.S. boutiques.

Lifestyle Network won in the category, Lifestyle – Feature Segment, besting three other finalists:

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DAVID CORONA, Producer

WINNER – “Haute the Record – Rafe Totengco,” Lifestyle Network
BEVERLY TUMANENG DESUASIDO, Executive Producer;
CLARISSA OCAMPO, Producer/Writer;
OLIVIA DE JESUS, Managing Director;
JEREMIAH YSIP, Director of Photography,
JOSEPH PERRY, Videographer;
JON SANTOS, Editor;
ALBERT CHUNG, Motion Graphic Artist

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DEREK FERNANDEZ, Producer/Online Editor/Audio;
JENNIFER LOW, Co-Producer/Photographer;
JOSHUA ALEXANDER, Photographer;
HERB FERRETTE, Offline Editor;
WILLIAM DILLON, Audio-Post

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JENNIFER LOW, Producer;
HALILI KNOX, Associate Producer/Host;
DEREK FERNANDEZ, Associate Producer/Photographer;
WILLIAM DILLON, Associate Producer/Audio;
JOSHUA ALEXANDER, Photographer;
MANUEL VELAZQUEZ, Photographer/Editor;
HERB FERRETTE, Offline Editor

Additionally, ABS-CBN International videographer Jeremiah Ysip was also nominated for an individual award under the category Outstanding Achievement Photographer-Program.

“When we launched Lifestyle Network in 2013, our goal was to come up with a channel that inspires Filipinos in America to fulfill their passion and realize their dreams. By winning this Emmy for our series that celebrated precisely that spirit of creativity and excellence of the Filipino, we ourselves realized a dream with this coveted industry recognition. We’re very grateful to everyone involved in making this happen,” said ABS-CBN North America Managing Director Olivia De Jesus.

The Emmy® statuette is awarded for outstanding achievement in television by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. San Francisco/Northern California is one of the 20 chapters awarding regional Emmy® Awards. The chapter is composed of television/cable stations, on-line and production companies from Visalia to the Oregon border and includes Hawaii and Reno, Nevada. A total of 324 entries were nominated and 92 received the Emmy® statuette. English and Spanish language entries were judged, scored and awarded separately. Electronic ballots were submitted by a minimum of five peer judges from other NATAS chapters and were sent directly to the accounting firm of Spalding & Company in San Francisco.