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Thursday January 25, 2007

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10:00Public Financing for Presidential Campaigns

Sen. Hillary Clinton will forgo public funding for her White House bid and other candidates are likely to follow suit. Diane and her guests talk about the decline of the public financing system and what, if anything, to do about it.

Guests

Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause

John Samples, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Representative Government

11:00"The Heart and Soul of Sundance," an NPR Special hosted by Diane Rehm

Diane travels to Utah to talk with Robert Redford, up-and-coming filmmakers, and others behind the scenes at the Sundance Institute.

Guests

Robert Redford, actor, director, producer; founder the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival

Michelle Satter, Director of the Feature Film Program at Sundance Institute

Geoff Gilmore, Director of the Sundance Film Festival

Scott Frank, writer, director, actor, producer, and the 2007 artistic director of the feature film program at the Sundance Film Institute.

Sterlin Harjo, director, filmmaker, writer, 2004 Sundance Film Institute Lab Fellow. His first feature film is "Four Sheets to the Wind."

Richard Montoya, writer, director, actor, and 2007 Sundance Institute Film Festival Fellow. He's working on adapting the theatrical version of his play "Water & Power" into a screenplay.

Maryam Keshavarz, screenwriter, director, 2007 Sundance Film Institute Lab Fellow. She is working on a feature film titled, "Circumstance"

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