A Black man watching his Austin neighborhood get priced out from under him. A jazz musical. And a Texas filmmaker who took that story all the way to Tribeca.
We sat down with writer and director Alejandro Hendricks at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival to talk Airport BLVD — a jazz-infused, bittersweet love letter to East Austin and the Black community being erased by the city's transformation.

Alejandro gets into what it meant to build this story around the displacement of Black Austinites, how he crafted a full musical on a Lo-Fi budget, what it took to get an independent Texas film into the U.S. Narrative Competition at one of the world's biggest film festivals, and why the stories that hit closest to home are the ones worth going all the way for.

Airport BLVD is now in competition in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, presented by OKX.

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