Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema  Osian's-Cinefan, the largest film-festival devoted to Asian and Arab cinema, is part of "Osian's Film House Division". The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in July 2008. After a two-year break, the 12th staging of the festival took place in July 2012. Cinefan began in 1999 as an outgrowth of "Cinemaya", a quarterly Asian cinema magazine published in New Delhi since 1988. The festival was launched with 27 films presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) and supported by the government of Delhi. The focus that first year was on cinema of Japan as well as the 30th anniversary of the Indian New Wave with a selection of films by New Wave directors. The festival was taken over in 2004 by Osian's Connoisseurs of Art and was renamed Osian's-Cinefan. Osian's-Cinefan, 10th festival of Asian and Arab cinema was held in New Delhi 10–20 July 2008. The main focus was the relationship between writing and cinema, which was explored through film screenings and seminars. This section, comprising novels in adaptation, will be the basis of a new literary festival, introduced at Osian's-Cinefan for the first time. It will include readings and discussions between writers and filmmakers. Girish Kasaravalli's Kannada movie "Gulabi Talkies" gained the best Indian film award at the festival, and Umashree won the Best actress award for the same film. Osian's Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Cinema instituted that year was awarded to eminent filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Aruna Vasudev Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Cinema was conferred on Jose "Pete" F. Lacaba. Osian's announced prize money worth Rs 10 million (approx US$250,000) for its Competition sections and Lifetime Achievement awards. Asian and Arab: Asian and Arab films made between May 2007 and April 2008  Indian Competition: Indian films made between May 2007 and April 2008  First Features: First features by Asian, Arab or Indian directors made between May 2007 and April 2008  In-Tolerance: A competitive section, it includes feature and documentary films that respond to or deal with the intolerance of our times, intolerance of the other, of differences, deviations and departures. Frescoes: New films from Asian and Arab countries that showcase the richness and diversity of their cinemas  Indian Mosaic: New films from India  Cross-Cultural Encounters: Films that show a cross-cultural connection between Asian, Arab and other cultures  Filmcraft: Screenplay (World Cinema): Films chosen with a view to opening a debate on whether the screenplay is a necessary evil and whether the verbal document called the screenplay can presage the living reality of images and sound in cinema  Films from Israel and Palestine: A glimpse of Israeli and Palestinian cinema 60 years after U.N. partition of Palestine  Writing and Cinema: The novel in adaptation and tribute to Naguib Mahfouz.