First Floor Features

First Floor Features was founded in 1984

The first film the studio released was Abel in 1986.^[1]

In 1991, Geels and Maas built a film studio in Almere. In March 1991, the studio complex was opened by Minister Hedy d'Ancona and the two studio spaces of 900 and almost 1700 m², respectively, could also be rented by other film producers.^[2]However, interest was disappointing, and the 10 million guilder Film Factory was sold to the NOB with First Floor Features becoming a tenant. The outside area of the studios consisted of the set houses of Zonnedael, used for filming the Flodder TV series. In 1999, the house for Big Brother was placed here.

In 1998, the company focused on the English-language market. The 1999 film Do Not Disturb attracted few viewers, and the 2001 English-language remake of the film The Lift, Down even became a flop.^[3] Dick Maas left the organization in 2002.

The cost of the English-language film Resistance turned out to be much higher than expected, and FFF ran into financial problems from which the company was unable to recover.^[4] On 25 February 2004, the company was declared bankrupt.^[5]