He lives in the USA since 2010. His home is New York City. Before moving from Brazil, he worked at CULT magazine and at the newspapers Destak and O Estado de S. Paulo. In 2010, he traveled by RV and visited about 39 American states, besides Mexico and Canada. With the journalist Mila Burns, Francisco reported stories of the Brazilians immigrants to Planeta Brasil, a show for the network TV Globo Internacional. Francisco was the cameraman of that successful project. At the same time he did write pieces for O Estado de S. Paulo. Nowadays he writes for Folha de S. Paulo, Valor Econômico, Carta Capital, Cult, and Superinteressante. He works as a cameraman for TV Globo, GloboNews, SporTV and Multishow. He is the owner of Gumbo Media, a production media company. In 2012 he and Mila translated into Portuguese “A Singular Woman, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother” (Riverhead Books).