The inaugural SilverVox Film + Music Festival welcomes DIIV – the Brooklyn alternative-shoegaze-rock band founded by Zachary Cole Smith – who will provide direct support at The Weinberg Center on Saturday, June 20, 2026. As a bonus, the festival will also screen the band’s film Boiled Alive on June 19. The festival runs June 18–21,… Read more: DIIV Rounds Out Saturday Night!

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Kishi Bashi: WEB | SPOTIFY | INSTAGRAM | LIVE VIDEO Kishi Bashi – the genre-defying singer, songwriter, violinist, and filmmaker – will join the festival’s Saturday Night music lineup. His addition deepens a slate built around artists who turn a live set into something unforgettable. The festival runs June 18–21, 2026, across the theaters, venues, and… Read more: Kishi Bashi Joins Saturday Night!

Indie-Pop Favorites CULTS to Headline The Weinberg Center at SilverVox Film & Music Festival CULTS: WEB | SPOTIFY | INSTAGRAM | LIVE VIDEO CULTS – the New York indie-pop duo of Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion – will headline the festival’s Saturday night music programming at Weinberg Center on June 20, 2026. The band’s set caps a music slate built around acts… Read more: CULTS to Headline Saturday Night

View the event Previously Announced Talks: Public School, Private Dreams: Building the Bridge to ‘Professional’ Education & Training A high school diploma is rarely enough to break into the arts, but The Academy of Fine Arts and Barbara Ingram offer something more: a professional-grade foundation. How do these audition-required public programs function as a welcome… Read more: Broadway’s Andrea Macasaet Joins Talks Lineup

FILM + MUSIC PROGRAMMING FILMS: FRI JUN 19MUSIC: SUN JUN 21 FILMS: “Freedom in Three Movements: History, Culture, and the Black Lens”  A three-part Juneteenth program exploring Black history, culture, and storytelling through film. Featuring local history, global music traditions, and contemporary Black voices, “Freedom in Three Movements” is a cinematic journey across the African… Read more: Juneteenth Programming

Rae Boyd and her sister Jamie were singing at restaurants around Maryland, just two girls trying to make something happen. Then Rae ended up performing to an empty bar at the Conrad Las Vegas – and an American Idol producer walked in.

Public School, Private Dreams: Building the Bridge to ‘Professional’ Education & Training A high school diploma is rarely enough to break into the arts, but The Academy of Fine Arts and Barbara Ingram offer something more: a professional-grade foundation. How do these audition-required public programs function as a welcome bridge, establishing within students the confidence… Read more: Talks/Panels

View the event The inaugural SilverVox Film & Music Festival today announced its marquee centerpiece screening: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, presented in arrangement with Magenta Light Studios, the production and distribution company founded by Oscar-winning producer Bob Yari. The feature-length documentary film, which originally premiered in 2025 at South by Southwest, is scheduled… Read more: STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR

MEET THE 2026 JURY: Midnight Films Eduardo Sanchez Director · Blair Witch Project · Yellowjackets · Supernatural Eduardo Sanchez was born in Cuba in 1968. He studied television at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD and film at the University of Central Florida, where he met his Haxan Films partners. In 1998 he co-wrote and co-directed… Read more: EDUARDO SÁNCHEZ JOINS JURY