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Awards & Recognition
2022 - DOC NYC 40 under 40 Honoree
2022 - Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Journalism Prize - Honorable Mention, Distinguished Reporting on National Defense in 2021
2021 - Ida B. Wells Society Fellow
2021 - Northern California Emmy Award winner
2020 - Northern California Emmy Award nominee
2019 - Fleishacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship nominee
2017 - Marlon T. Riggs Fellowship - UC Berkeley
2017 - Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar
2016 - Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Beurs
Serginho Roosblad is an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and photographer. He’s the video producer for the Associated Press’ Global Investigations team, where he was the inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Fellow.
At the AP, Serginho has worked on a variety of investigative short documentaries, which have been seen by millions, including on police use of force on children, Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, and a contaminated former army base, which might have caused cancer in hundreds of veterans.
He’s a member of the War Crimes Watch Ukraine team, a collaboration between the AP and PBS/FRONTLINE. War Crimes Watch is a multi-platform initiative that has been gathering, verifying, and cataloging potential war crimes, as well as co-published stories and videos stemming from the AP’s reporting on the war.
Serginho is also a producer of ‘Exposing Muybridge’ (dir. Marc Shaffer), a feature-length documentary on motion picture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, which premiered at DOC NYC 2021. After a successful festival streak including Sheffield DocFest, Palm Springs Film festival, and Doclands, the film went on to win a 2022 Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay.
‘Exposing Muybridge’ is an unofficial conclusion of a trilogy of documentaries on photographers that Serginho made. The first installment in the series is a profile on photographer Jonathan Calm with whom Serginho traveled across California and Nevada, documenting former Green Book locations. The film was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020. The second film profiled David Maisel and his work on Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
In 2021 Serginho and his team at KQED Arts won an Emmy Award for the production ‘Dear Beloved’, which centers around three mothers who lost children to gun violence, writing letters to those who’ve passed.
As a journalist, Serginho spent much of the 2010s covering Africa. He worked as a freelance correspondent covering Africa’s Great Lakes region from Uganda’s capital Kampala. His work has been published by Voice of America, AJ+, the BBC, The Guardian, Radio France International, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Africa is a Country and many others.
He’s the creator and producer of My Song, an online video series documenting Africa’s most politically and civically engaged musical artists.
Serginho hails from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with roots in the (former) Dutch Caribbean. Prior to living in the U.S., he lived in Uganda, South Africa, and Denmark. He holds a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley, where he was the Marlon T. Riggs Fellow in documentary filmmaking. He also has a Master of Philosophy degree in African studies from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), where he studied visual trauma culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as depicted by the country's most popular political cartoonists.
His Bachelor’s degree in Journalism is from the Hogeschool Utrecht (The Netherlands).