“Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera said she was so moved by the experience of filming the documentary “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” investigating childhood prostitution in India, that she was inspired to visit her parents’ birthplace in Honduras for the first time. The actress told an audience at the SVA Theater Thursday following a Revlon and The Tribeca Film Institute screening of the PBS special: “After the trip, it was really hard to come back to real life. Mainly I know I am not immune to something we all feel — which is to feel something so passionately, so deeply, see a way that you can make a difference, then come back to your real life and forget. I tried as hard as I could to do something in the moment . . . based on this trip, . . . Something that is near to my heart is that my parents are from Honduras. But I was born in the United States and I’d never been to my own home in Honduras. I went with the One Campaign, I asked them to shine a light on women and girls in Honduras and I just got back from that trip . . . What I have learned is that everyone around the world wants to be loved and to be able to protect ourselves and our families, and in the end nothing else matters.” Actress Olivia Wilde traveled to Kenya for the “Half the Sky” film and visited the Umoja Women’s Village, a female-only village of women who have come together to fight inequality and the spousal abuse and female genital mutilation that the Samburu women have endured. Wilde told the audience, which included Donna Karan, Lauren Bush Lauren and Tina Brown: “It was an amazing experience. I learned to be optimistic because these people are incredible, these business people know exactly what they need . . . they just need to be empowered and invested in and supported and believed in.” Now she says she wants to pursue more storytelling through documentaries. “ I am inspired by the power of film to tell these stories. I saw the power of film . . . I didn’t want to leave [the women’s village], they had to drag me out by my hair.” Later the actresses joined “Half the Sky” writers Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn and event co-hosts Ronald Perelman and Jane Rosenthal for a dinner. The films will be screened on PBS on Oct. 1 and 2.