Rob Cawston - openDemocracy

Bucking the trend? More on coffee...

Has Starbucks turned a corner after announcing today an alliance with Ethiopian farmers?

By Rob Cawston

/ 21 Jun 2007

Black Gold: Nick Francis interviewed

In my short review of the documentary Black Gold I said I was trying to track down co-director Nick Francis. Well, mission accomplished! Here he is talking to me about

By Rob Cawston

/ 21 Jun 2007

Black Gold: wake up and smell the coffee

by Rob Cawston Causes are boring. Or simply mundane. And the bigger they are the more the message gets subsumed into our everyday consciousness ... poverty bad, debt bad, aid ok,

By Rob Cawston

/ 18 Jun 2007

“Sorry”, Gail Jones

Listen to Gail Jones in Conversation with Rob cawston (To download, right click, "Save Link As") subscribe for free weekly podcast updates via iTunes "Sorry" by

By Rob Cawston

/ 11 Jun 2007

"Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators", Robbie Cooper

Buy now: UK, US, Worldwide "Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators" Robbie Cooper Chris Boot | June 2007 | ISBN 1905712022 | £17.95 Robbie Cooper's Alter Ego project

By Rob Cawston

/ 15 May 2007

Los Desaparecidos: rescuing real lives

As democracy was returning to Argentina in 1983, Siluetazos ('Silhouettes') appeared across the open spaces of Buenos Aires. On walls, blinds, signposts and countless other surfaces, black lines

By Rob Cawston

/ 16 Mar 2007

Dreams of Peace and Freedom, Jay Winter

Buy now: UK, US, Worldwide "Dreams of peace and Freedom: Utopian moments in the 20th Century" by Jay Winter Yale University Press | October 2006 | ISBN 0300106653 Recommended by

By Rob Cawston

/ 12 Feb 2007

American Zeitgeist: war through a wide-angled lens

It is a good time to make a documentary. Whatever you think of Michael Moore he has led a revival of the genre. Be it for pure entertainment value or

By Rob Cawston

/ 14 Jun 2006

Latin America: Filming the past, framing the future

In his play Pablo, the Argentine playwright Eduardo Pavlovsky asks a question that has haunted the people of Latin America: "What's the use of always going back

By Rob Cawston

/ 2 Apr 2006

"A Man Without a Country", Kurt Vonnegut

Buy now: UK, US, Worldwide "A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W Bush's America" by Kurt Vonnegut Bloomsbury | February 2006 | ISBN

By Rob Cawston

/ 6 Feb 2006

Is everything illuminated? The curse of logophilia

It was with considerable trepidation that I saw Liev Schrieber’s new film adaptation of one of my favourite novels, Everything is Illuminated. Containing just about everything – from a magic

By Rob Cawston

/ 2 Dec 2005

Nuremberg and the legacy of law

“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow”. These were the words delivered by Robert

By Rob Cawston

/ 21 Nov 2005