A great new documentary film, "Trash Dance," depicts the grace and warmth of city sanitation workers and the dignity of their work. This is just the sort of film the DC Labor FilmFest has brought to metropolitan Washington, D.C., audiences each year since 2001, but "Trash Dance" needs a small amount of financial support to come to the silver screen.

Please click here for details on how a contribution of as little as $25 can be worth $8,500. In filmmaker Andy Garrison’s "Trash Dance," choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in the many unnoticed movements of people carrying out their daily work. Orr joins city sanitation workers in Austin, Texas—members of an AFSCME local—on their daily routes to listen, learn and, ultimately, to try to convince them to collaborate in a unique dance/performance piece.

Hard working, often carrying a second job, their lives are already full with work, family and dreams of their own. But some step forward, and after months of rehearsal, two dozen trash collectors and 16 large trucks perform an extraordinary spectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, thousands of people show up to see how in the world a garbage truck can "dance."

"Trash Dance" provides an intimate illumination of these workers' lives, skills and talents and breaks down barriers. Garrison is just $1,000 short of his $8,500 fundraising goal on Kickstarter to raise the final funds for completion of "Trash Dance," but he only gets the funds if the goal is reached by midnight this Saturday, March 10.