Your travel look like?

Sleep on a flea-ridden dirty ground, against E. coli and agriculture radish is not typical of hope summer, but four students pack and camera to South America to do this. Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, two students from Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles, recruiting the help of their filmmaker friends, Western alumnus Sean Leonard and Western students Ryan Christofferson, record the their journey. The group, led by a Guatemala City to experience what is like to live in a dollar a day, 1.1 billion people face every day a reality. What started as a simple summer vacation plans, and now has become a life-long mission, so that the poor social dialogue. The Group is a national tour to promote their film "life" and Pickford Film Center stop on Monday. Western sit in front of the producer, asked their travel, movies, and their lives, living in poverty.

Your travel look like?

Zach - Ingrasci: We spent 56 days in Guatemala live on less than a dollar a day. We know that

We will never be able to truly copy poverty, but we want to simulate some of the key aspects. For example, most of the extreme poor do not have one U.S. dollar each day of life. Some days, they get paid, and some they do not work because they are informal. Us our money random increments from 0-9 every day attracted from a hat, so a few weeks, we have a very rough time.

Chris Temple: We've been looking for this service is known as micro-credit, loans and savings accounts of people living in extreme poverty, but it makes it easier for them to manage their own money to improve their lives.

With small loans, you can start a business. For example, Rosa, one of our neighbors, the sixth grade when forced to drop out of school because her father is really sick, she had to work to support their families. About two years ago, she was able to get a small loan, and start knitting enterprises. Her money from her weaving business, she sends himself through school and her dream is to become a nurse's assistant, which is awesome. Such a small thing can have a huge impact on a person's life.

Chris Temple: The entire project is just over 4000 U.S. dollars. From nine different sources of funding is denied, we finally got a grant. This is a battle to get it done, but we believe it, and think this is worth doing.

When your low budget, you nervous?

Chris Temple: This is my fault. I put two zero two from the hat, so the four of us, we have 12 cents per person living in the four days. I remember one morning when I wake up in the dirt floor by flea bites at night, I have one in my stomach parasite called Giardia. I'm really sick, and we do not even know if we have enough money for food that day. This is a way of life, beyond the [United States] we have the experience, it makes us aware that we really want our lives to do something to face it.

How did you meet?

The Zach - Ingrasci: Chris and I went to school together down Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. We focus on the development of economics, we have been running into this massive statistics: 1.1 billion live in less than one U.S. dollar a day.

I grew up on Bainbridge Island and Chris grew up in Connecticut. We really do not know what the actual meaning of the statistics, it is actually lived at this level. That is why we hope to spend a summer get just a glimpse of what reality is, and to share it with our counterparts via video blog, which is why I win over Sean and Ryan together into the future with me, because I grew up with them on Bainbridge. I let them down, and become a part of this experience.

Shooting process like?

Sean Leonard: We shot over 200 hours of material. We shot everything. We're back, trying to create a story, to be able to truly bridge this divide Thinking poverty. Before this trip, nothing came to mind when I think of poverty. Then just hope that through the film, one can not just think of poverty, or $ 110 million, but the actual people living in very difficult circumstances.

Zach - Ingrasci: As a producer, we go there and not really know what we expect.

The experience is real change. This story is really our story. Our story bridge people began to think about these issues. This is the true story of Anthony, Rosa and Chino protagonist of the film, who are our counterparts there in fact living in the poverty level, their entire life.

The two filmmakers go to the West. University life is how to shape your experience?

Sean Leonard: Department of English in the West is inconceivable, because it is all about storytelling. I often go to my professor's office hours, and get advice. In the documentary, you have to tell a story. Do not you think that English is automatically applied to film production, but if you put your degree, and apply it to the things you love, you can have a lot of final results. This thing is so cool about our team. We have a background in English, economics, international relations and education. All our people are able to put our own skillsets to this project to make it unique.

You start the YouTube video in your travel, there are now more than 600,000 times. Why did you decide to upload your lens in real time?

Ryan Christopher, we show online video blog, and to shoot and edit. Them every two weeks, and we are there. The idea was to get people to follow our experience, showed a decline, rather than the back, there is a solid piece.

Chris Temple: we see as a live, interactive tour of falling into poverty, where people do not know what's going to occur next week's excitement can be drawn.

You did not think your trip will this do?

Sean Leonard: "Never." We think we will be back, and ten to fifteen minutes a small film. We're back, and realize that there is a long way to tell. We have to work with some great people.

Chris Temple: The one thing we want to tell the students, [thinking] such a small start. We think this is a summer vacation. We do not think it will be something, will consume our lives over the next three years. 600,000 on YouTube that point of view, this is a new way of audience reach. People are excited. Teachers use video in their classrooms. We recognize that help to bridge the gap of understanding, we can make poverty in the conversation. Otherwise, it has not been resolved. Did not talk about the election, I do not think this is the way it should be. We can really try to bring it back in the forefront of the conversation, hoping to inspire people to take action.

What is the biggest lesson you've learned in this experience?

Chris Temple: one of the biggest takeaway for me has always been something so small, such as a bed to sleep in, get a small loan or even just enough food to think when you go to school there are significant the impact of a person's life who lives in a dollar a day. For us, have real authority.

What is the editing process is it?

Sean Leonard: all movies are mostly edited Bellingham.

Chris Temple: We do this in our sophomore summer. Zach and I am still in the Claremont McKenna College. We will discuss through Skype and editor with back and forth. What technology has allowed us to do is incredible. We create a movie, is 3,000 miles away, another just shot stuff back and forth to each other by e-mail.

Why did you decide to take the road on the movie?

Zach - Peña Blanca Ingrescia: our friends in changing our lives and continue to do so every day.

People living in the case in order to solve a complex global problem of poverty, we not only need to know it, know it, but in a sustainable manner, respect for human dignity, but also do so. This is why the four of us on tour. Bellingham is our sixteenth stopped. We head down to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and eventually fell back to Guatemala. I hope we can inspire people to do something.

Hannah Gregg: If there are no big production team behind, we have to think about another way to make his movie, and let people see it. This is the original idea behind the sightseeing bus. If we can put it in schools throughout the country, who can prove, especially young people, are inspired by it, maybe we can create a following seductive network.

The group's next, what happens?

Hannah Greg: movie no matter what happens, we want to keep the content, education, attractive and inspiring, in fact, is something you want to do, rather than bombarding your guilt. We intend to let the film have their own lives and the distribution of the best, we can get it. We have to go a little bit open. This is exciting.

How did you different?

Chris Temple: One day, we went home, our experience is the most difficult part. We go, we go home, heart and body is what life in poverty levels. We know our friends or life. Came back, we have two choices: refused and tried to pretend that this is not the opportunity or respect, we've got everything, we have here, I think, for us, this is we have been trying to do. This is really a battle every day. We take a look at the technology and education we have, we have to give to the west or McKenna. At our fingertips, we have the incredible opportunity. I want people to take away, you can really make a difference in the lives of others, and we hope you will.