Music Box Theatre

Beyond Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States, is expanding from Los Angeles for the first time ever with some help from Lakeview's Music Box Theatre. With programming from filmmakers across the globe—from high-energy premieres and repertory screenings to locally sourced talent—Beyond Fest promises four days of all-killer-no-filler, cinematic excess and celebration.

Access Contemporary Music returns to the Music Box Theatre for its 21st annual Sound of Silent Film Festival, which screens a series of new short silent films set to original scores by Chicago-based composers. This year's lineup was sourced from an international call, with ten films selected out of more than a hundred submissions.