JENNIE PUNTER Special to The Globe and Mail With its eclectic programming, irreverent marketing campaigns and renowned parties, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival long ago dispelled any notions that it's a niche powwow. One of the world's largest, most prestigious celebrations of film and media work by indigenous peoples, the annual event doubled its audience from 8,000 in 2006 to 16,000 last year. The ninth edition, which opens Wednesday, reflects that growth with an increase in festival staff, sponsors and industry guests - not to mention a strong offering of more than 100 international and Canadian features and shorts, with many world premieres including Exile (Oct. 17, 5 p.m., Al Green), a documentary about the forcible relocation of Inuit families in 1953, from renowned filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (2001...
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