The Work in Progress - A movie at Avon Park Theater

If you were invited to sit at a table with someone you’ve never met before and answer handwritten questions from a wooden box about the state of America, would you run the other way? The Work in Progress invites strangers from across generations and geographies to engage in candid discussions about America’s ever-evolving democracy, identity, and definitions of community — and where the heck we go from here.   Guided by questions posed by Executive Producer Robert Reich, participants sit down in a series of conversations with one another to explore the country they’re living in now and the one they still believe is possible.

These encounters are intercut with portraits of Americans at work — in woodshops, laboratories, fields, board rooms, recording studios, theaters, and beyond. The message is simple but profound: America can work because, in many ways, it’s already working. And a central part of the work ahead is to reclaim the practices of dialogue, debate, compromise, and perhaps mostimportantly, listening, so that we might find our footing again.  What emerges in The Work in Progress is an unusual and provocative glimpse of America in its 250th year, and an invitation to all Americans to pull up a chair, invite a stranger, and lend an ear.

Inequality Media

Inequality Media (IM) envisions a United States where active participation by informed citizens restores the balance of power in our democracy and creates an economy where gains are widely shared. Through digital media and the power of storytelling, IM educates and engages millions of people about the realities and impacts of inequality and imbalance of power in America.

Co-founded by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, IM’s believes in the power of aninformed and engaged public to bring about change. IM’s affiliated organization, Inequality Media Civic Action, released The Last Class, the fifth highest-grossing film of 2025. The Work in Progress is the first feature-length documentary IM has directly supported. For more info visit inequalitymedia.org.