Established in 1981under Malaysia National Film Development Corporation Act 1981 [Act 244] to make recommendations to the Minister as to the policies, methods and measures to be adopted to promote, nurture and facilitate the development of the film industry, to develop, and stimulate the growth and maintain the standards of, the film industry by various means, including the provision of research and advisory services, to regulate and control the production, distribution and exhibition of films in Malaysia, and in relation thereto to provide for the issue of licences and to to disseminate information on policies, programmes and achievements of the Government through the production of films