But you won't be seeing her face or hearing her voice in the series.
She said: "I don't appear in it. The only voices are the voices of the poor. This is their story - why tell it for them when they can tell it themselves."
Ms Forss usually travels alone to these countries, where she then meets up with a local guide and translator.
She takes with her a 7kg filming gear - camera, tripod, microphone, lights and lots of batteries because most of the places she goes to have no electricity. She does her own research and gains access to information by working with non-governmental organisations and the United Nations branches.
Among her most memorable experiences are not showering for five days in Mongolia in August and travelling through Kyrgyzstan in June during the ethnic violence.
Worried friends called and sent text messages to her to check on her but she said the remote areas she travelled to were tranquil. In fact, the locals were often surprised when she told them there was fighting elsewhere.
In January, when she was in Vietnam, she was threatened by gangs while she was filming street kids, and in Thailand, she was bitten by mysterious bugs that gave her itchy skin for almost half a year. "It was so unbearable I couldn't sleep for days," she said.
Food poisoning
In Kyrgyzstan, she had food poisoning when she was invited by the locals into their homes to drink horse milk. Their practice was to fill everyone's glasses, pour back all the leftover milk into a common bucket, and serve that same milk again later.
Throw in landslides in the Philippines, car accidents and travelling on "dodgy propeller planes". Said the Singapore-born Ms Forss, who is of Swedish and Chinese parentage: "My grandma couldn't sleep at night because she was so worried about me. My whole family has been telling me not to do this."
But they can see how passionately she feels for her project. Her fiance, a 33-year-old in the banking industry, is "used to my nonsense", she said with a laugh.
She was also touched by the generosity she experienced from the locals.
She said: "They have absolutely nothing. They live on less than $1 a day but they were more generous to me than anyone I've ever met."
She recalled being totally unprepared for Mongolia, where it was 4 deg C even though it was summer. She said: "My driver gave me his coat and the people I was living with gave me the prized spot in the room - right next to the fire where animal dung was burnt all night for heat."
She expects to finish the series next January.
All in, the experience has been "absolutely exhilarating", she said.
"I would do it all over again. I won't even mind not showering for a month."
This article was first published in The New Paper.
