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Los Angeles based film producer Effie T. Brown will appear on "Inside Urban Hollywood" with host Tanya Kersey on Monday, October 6, 2008, at 6pm PST/9pm EST, to discuss the business of producing feature films. Brown has produced critically acclaimed, award-winning feature projects, including "Stranger Inside;" "Real Women Have Curves" (winner of Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Performance); "Everyday People" and "In the Cut." Effie’s latest film "Rocket Science" won the Sundance 2007 Grand Jury Prize for Directing and was nominated for Best First Feature, Best Screenplay and Best Actress by the Independent Spirit Awards. She has several films slated for production this year, including "Bury Me Standing" with Kerry Washington, Alfre Woodard, Mos Def and Katt Williams and "Bobby Zero" with Mos Def and Erykah Badu set to star. Brown received the Motorola Producer Award at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards, and the 2003 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Loyola Marymount University, her alma mater and now serves on the board of the FIND / Film Independent.