Jeissy Trompiz Brings Three Houses to Vancouver's New Works-in-Progress Forum
Venezuelan director Jeissy Trompiz will bring his documentary Three Houses (Tres casas) to the Vancouver Film Festival's newly launched Business Hub Works-In-Progress Forum, according to Variety. The selection was reported on 9 October 2026. It puts an unfinished film about home life in Venezuela in front of funders, sales agents and festival programmers.
Three Houses is structured as a video letter from Maracaibo to a friend of the director, Variety reported. The action stays inside three family homes. The focus is on ordinary households handling daily pressures around money, work and family life.
Trompiz identifies as Afro Indigenous and grew up on the edge of Maracaibo, according to Variety. He describes Afro and Indigenous communities in Venezuela as living in the "periphery of the periphery". In plain terms, that means far from centres of power and far again from attention.
He left Maracaibo in 2014 to study filmmaking at the International School of Film and TV in Cuba, Variety reported. He settled in the Dominican Republic in 2019, where he lives and works. He has spent four years developing Three Houses.
A works-in-progress event is not a premiere. It is a market section, where teams show material that is not yet finished to close the budget and arrange post-production, sales and festival routes. Vancouver's new hub follows that model. Its listing describes Three Houses as mapping violence in Venezuela through three family homes, according to VIFF.
Trompiz has moved through this development path before. He was credited on The Gagá of La Ceja, a Dominican Republic-Venezuela production set in the world of Gagá music, according to Variety. Other listings link him to Saint Vitus (San Vito), produced by Sofía Marcos of Alamar Films – Peixe Aranha, and to La lengua del agua, which won a Works-in-Progress award from the Doha Film Institute and earned selection for Qumra 2026.
What makes this stand out is the framing. One city. Three houses. A letter to a friend keeps the business of Vancouver tied to life in Maracaibo.
