Areas of Expertise:
Radio, sound design, video, transmedia journalism.
Creative Work
Production work: The Crisis of My Friends, an interactive Web documentary project that will explore the impact of the current economic crisis in Spain, on the culture of work in this European country and particularly on the lives of a certain group of Spaniards, the people I grew up with. For a generation of Spaniards who were born around the time the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died, the aspiration to have a job that they liked, and the idea of work as a means for personal fulfillment, differentiated them from their parents and other previous generations. That view of work carried with it a view of life, the world, society and the country. But the current crisis has caused a recession in the way my generation views work and perhaps even in the state of labor rights. This project will explore what could be the long-term consequences of the crisis and its impact on the culture of work in Spain. 2013
Pre-production work for a new documentary and transmedia project that will go into production in 2013. "Your Brain on Immigration" will be a transmedia project that will explore the development of an alternative immigrant identity by emigrants who leave their countries past their teenage years. Macias is particularly interested in the parallelism that this process might have with that of having a double personality, and the mechanism that the brain uses to deal with two cultures, languages, social norms, habits, even attitudes. 2012
Production work for a documentary that is investigating the long-term consequences of the past internal conflict in Peru and the ongoing conflict in Colombia. 2011
Other Professional Activities
Coverage of the week of protests that a group of teachers from Andalucia (the southern region of Spain) staged in December 2012 to protest against the decision of the Junta de Andalucia (government of the region) to fire 4,502 public school teachers. Link to videos: http://radiofreeradio.net/docentesinterinos/english. 2013
Production of a 23-minute documentary about the protests activities of a group of public school teachers in Seville, Spain, in summer 2013. On May 17, a group of public school teachers, known as interinos, from the south of Spain entered a public high school in Sevilla, with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite amount of time. This was the last action after months of intense protests with little results. In this video, four interinos reflect on their experiences, their expectations, the state of the country and the future, as we become witnesses of a intimate event.
Link to video: http://radiofreeradio.net/findecurso/ 2013
Coverage of the 15M movement protests in Seville, Spain. http://radiofreeradio.net/sevilla19junio/ 2011
Coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement in New York. http://radiofreeradio.net/occupytimessq/; http://radiofreeradio.net/occupywallstreet/ 2011
Youth Radio's Bogota Series. In August 2009 I traveled to Bogota to conduct a two-week multimedia workshop with a group of teenagers. They were members of the nongovernmental organization Taller de Vida, which works with youth directly impacted by the violent internal conflict. Many of them have been members of the insurgency or paramilitary groups that are still active in Colombia. In New York, I worked to edit, translate, subtitle and design the multimedia Web posts for all seven stories on Youth Radio's website, http://www.youthradio.org/radio-juventud. 2010
