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ââ‚¬â€? "Terminal Bar," a 23-minute exploration of the ever-changing clientele at a New York City bar, won the prize for short films Awards were presented Saturday night, with top winners screening one last time on Sunday as the 11-day independent-film showcase ended Among other Sundance winners: ââ‚¬â€? "Whale Rider," a New Zealand film about a girl who aspires to lead her Maori village, won the world-cinema audience award "The Station Agent" earned the Waldo Salt screenwriting prize for Tom McCarthy, who also directed " The cross-dressing Charles Busch also won a special-jury prize for outstanding performance for "Die Mommie Die!", in which he plays an ex-diva who plots to kill her husband with a poisoned suppository ââ‚¬â€? Dana Kupper, Gordon Quinn and Peter Gilbert won the documentary cinematography honor for "Stevie," from "Hoop Dreams" director Steve James, about a troubled youth to whom he was a "big brother ââ‚¬â€? Special jury prizes for emotional truth went to the dramatic features "All the Real Girls," a painfully authentic examination of young love, and "What Alice Found," a road movie about a girl who falls in with a retired couple who cover their RV expenses through prostitution 'American Splendor' Claims Sundance Prize Jan 26, 7:06 AM EST "American Splendor," a wily film biography that stars Paul Giamatti as churlish underground comic-book writer Harvey Pekar, won the grand jury prize, the top dramatic honor at the Sundance Film Festival Sundance jurors gave the documentary grand prize to "Capturing the Friedmans," which traces the disintegration of a family after the father and youngest son are arrested for child molestation The dramatic directing award went to Catherine Hardwicke for "thirteen," a tale of a bright teen (Evan Rachel Wood) whose loving relationship with her mother (Holly Hunter) crumbles from the bad influence of a new school chum " ââ‚¬â€? "What I Want My Words to Do to You," about female prison inmates coming to grips with their deeds in a writing workshop, won the festival's freedom of expression award " ââ‚¬â€? Derek Cianfrance received the dramatic cinematography award for the street-racing tale "Quattro Noza The audience award for dramatic films, chosen in voting by Sundance film-goers, went to "The Station Agent," a drolly comic portrait of friendship among a misanthropic dwarf (Peter Dinklage), a grieving woman (Patricia Clarkson) and a motor-mouthed coffee peddler (Bobby Cannavale) Busch also wrote the screenplay Written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, "American Splendor" cleverly incorporates animation, archival video and interludes with the real Pekar, whose comic books caustically document his dreary life as a file clerk in Cleveland Clarkson received a special-jury prize for outstanding performance for "The Station Agent" and two other Sundance films in which she co-starred, "Pieces of April" and "All the Real Girls It also earned the documentary directing prize for Jonathan Karsh "My Flesh and Blood," a documentary that follows a year in the life of a woman who adopted 11 special-needs children including legless girls and terminally ill boys, won the documentary audience award