Biography

Born and raised in Venezuela, Chusy has lived and worked in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. A former executive creative director of a blue-chip international advertising agency, Chusy attended the Director's Program at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California and received an MFA in directing. There he made, Monkey Park, a short film starring Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer and Ray Wise. His first film, Anywhere, USA, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, awarded by a Quentin Tarantino-led jury. In 2011, Chusy was asked to present a work in progress of his documentary film, Gigante, as part of a TED talk he gave in San Francisco. Chusy was featured in an episode of Made, the uplifting MTV show where he helped a teen with learning disabilities make a film. He is the father of two beautiful children, speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French with working knowledge of Italian and German, and is an inveterate flosser.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chusy

Father of Perla Haney-Jardine.