South Pacific Pictures' feature film White Lies | Tuakiri Huna won an Audience Choice Award at the 2014 La Costa Film Festival.

The film, which is written and directed by Dana Rotberg and based on Witi Ihimaera's novella 'The Medicine Woman' won the audience award for Foreign Narrative Feature.

The festival, which is held in Carlsbad, California, USA aims to deliver "a new cultural experience to North County that fosters a greater appreciation of the art of film making."

The Hollywood Reporter has a full wrap up of the La Costa festival in this article.