Niki Caro's coming-of-age story Whale Rider won the Audience Award in the dramaticfeature category at the fourth Maui Film Festival at Wailea, which ended onSunday (Jun 15).

Dana Brown's paean to surfing Step Into Liquid won the Audience Award for bestdocumentary.

Most,Bobby Garabedian's story of a railroad bridge-tender who learns he is tendingthe greatest bridge of all, won the short film prize.

This year'sevent drew a record 17,500 crowd to the Hawaiian island. Next year's event isscheduled to take place from Jun 16-20.