Manuel Betancourt

Presented by the IDA Documentary Screening Series and Sony Pictures Classics, the screening invites members to a special virtual screening and Q&A of Rehearsals for a Revolution exclusively for IDA members, the Academy, and the Guild. Q&A conversation with Director Pegah Ahangarani, moderated by Documentary magazine Interim Editor Manuel Betancourt, followed by virtual credits.

About the Film:

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers

Presented by the IDA Documentary Screening Series and Sony Pictures Classics, the screening invites members to a special screening and Q&A of Rehearsals for a Revolution exclusively for IDA members, the Academy, and the Guild. Q&A conversation with Director Pegah Ahangarani, moderated by Documentary magazine Interim Editor Manuel Betancourt, followed by a small reception.
 

Screening Event Details

Los Angeles, September 18, 2026, 7:30 PM PT, seating is limited and first-come, first-served. For AMPAS, Television Academy, and Guild members, RSVP by emailing screenings@documentary.org 

Additionally

Join Documentary magazine as we reveal the results of our “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” poll. 

The hour-long virtual event will serve as an exclusive preview of the magazine’s 2025 poll results and will feature special guests unveiling the 25 projects that topped the list.

About the poll: 
In December 2025, Documentary organized a poll of the documentary community (both IDA members and past contributors to the magazine) to assess which documentaries they deemed the “greatest” released this century. Each voter could define “greatest” however they saw fit: the only criterion was that all