Whale Rider won then People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002 and nine out of the ten top grossing centres in North America for New Zealand's Lord of the Rings were in Canada.
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In 2003, Castle-Hughes made her debut in the film Whale Rider, in which she played the main role of Paikea Apirana (Pai).
They were used in the musical sound tracks of films such as Once Were Warriors and award winning, Whale Rider and are becoming more widely used in television and film music to produce authentic natural sounds rather than artificially generated sounds.