Host a Screening

Start a conversation in your community. Foster a national dialogue. Host a home screening!

Poverty is a global issue that needs to be front and center in our minds as we approach the upcoming election. It affects all of us in different ways – but none of us as much as the billion people who are surviving on less than a dollar a day.

Most people recognize that living in poverty is difficult, but it’s hard to imagine how so many can live in such dire conditions – and harder still to imagine how they can sustain any kind of creativity or resourcefulness.

“A Dollar a Day” is a series of international documentaries produced by EMF Films. The films tell the stories of a few of the one billion people living on less than a dollar a day who are struggling to meet their basic needs and make the most of their existence – from finding clean water, to competing in international markets. The stories and footage of Maria, Cima, Wayne, Li, Ibrahima, James, and others, as seen in the Global Development Matters videos on this site, were captured by EMF Films.

Make global poverty a focus as you consider candidates and issues in the 2008 election. Gather your friends and neighbors at a home screening of this extraordinary series, so you can play a critical role in spreading the message that Global Development Matters.

Check back soon for more information about the films and how to create your event or to get notified when the films become available!

"A Dollar a Day" was produced by EMF Films and Global Visions, with Alexandra Jansse, Joost van Loon, and Peter Swanson as Executive Producers and Alexandra Jansse as Series Director.

Still photographs featured throughout GlobalDevelopmentMatters.org were provided courtesy of Alexandra Jansse, V. Janic, C. van der Heijden, F.J. van Luyn, P. King, Daniel Hartman.