Francis Corby Ceschin was born to a family of dentists in São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil.

Before his fourth birthday, he rebelled against his family’s history of dentistry and became a filmmaker.*

When Francis was seven years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States, first to Texas and then a year later to Pennsylvania, where all notion of reality vanished.

By the age of nine, he could speak perfect English with a slight Antonio Banderas accent and had created his first audio play using Steven Spielberg’s Lego® Movie Maker Set after the included Lego Camera didn’t work with the family computer.

When he was fifteen, he moved to New York City where he’d walk past NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts every day, dreaming of one day becoming a dentist.

I mean filmmaker.

He always wanted to be a filmmaker.**

Francis eventually attended NYU and in 2013 earned a BFA from Tisch, focusing on writing and directing. Since then, he has written and directed numerous projects, many of which you can watch here.

In 2019, Francis earned his Master of Arts degree from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and so far has won at least one (1) award.

In 2020, mid-pandemic lockdown, Francis became a cartoonist and designed hats for bald, balding, and bald-loving people (which you can buy at www.OLDBALDMEN.COM).

Francis writes and draws every day and would love to help you make whatever you want. He can be reached by filling the form on this page or by emailing him at: Francis@OldBaldMen.com.

(*In 1994, Francis watched Ace Ventura Pet Detective (1994) and was convinced that in order to make a good movie, all one had to do was put a camera in front of a Jim Carrey and say, “Action!” So he vowed to one day become “a Brazilian Jim Carrey.”)

(**In 1997, Francis discovered that there was also such a thing as a director, writer, producer, boom operator, editor, gaffer, etc… So he vowed yet another vow to one day learn those other roles as well… which he has.)

Say hello. Let’s make something together.

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