In 1993, the Dutch Federation for Cinematography (NFC) founded, on the initiative of J.Ph. Wolff and San Fu Maltha, a semi-autonomous research institution that would later be known as the Dutch Film Research Foundation. In 2004, the foundation became an independent organization. Since then, numerous studies have been conducted for a wide range of organizations. In addition, the foundation collaborated with – among others – the Netherlands Film Fund, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Eye. In 2019, the name of the foundation changed to Film Research Netherlands. At the end of 2019, the Dutch Exhibitors Association (NVBF) and Film Distributors Netherlands (FDN), each responsible for half of the research agency, jointly decided to stop the activities of Film Research Netherlands as of September 1, 2020.