Jeissy Trompiz’s ‘Three Houses’ Explores a Venezuela Where Afro and Indigenous Communities Sit on the ‘Periphery of the Periphery’

Trompiz's project has been selected for the Vancouver Film Festival’s newly-launched Business Hub Works-In-Progress Forum

By Katherine Brodsky

Katherine Brodsky

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“I don’t know what to tell you.”

For a time, that was Jeissy Trompiz’s answer when his Brazilian filmmaker friend would ask him about Venezuela.

Trompiz left Maracaibo, the oil city where he grew up, in 2014 to study filmmaking at the International School of Film and TV in Cuba, just before Venezuela’s economic and political crisis deepened.

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