Royal Nepal Film Development Company (RNFDC) was founded by His Majesty Government of Nepal under the communication act 1971, widely accepted as a creative thinker in the Nepali film industry. In 1989, the firm entered mainstream cinema processing and has never looked back since. Today, we process more than 80 percent of all Nepali films produced in Nepal.

Cinema has evolved over the past century as the most powerful visual language, art and craft. In our era of rapidly changing technology, with digital and electronic techniques incorporated into moving image production, the projected celluloid film image remains the state of the art, and the cinematic approach is chosen to create works of lasting value.
 
Movie making in Nepal started in the1960’s with the patronization from Royal family. The first movie was Satya Harishchandra. It was made by the Nepalese living in India in 1951. The first successful movie in Nepal was Aama, produced by His Majesty's Government of Nepal. This movie paved the way for commercial film making in Nepal. In the beginning, Nepalese film industry produced quite a number of successful movies such as Basanti, Kusume Rumal Prem Pinda, and Maithighar. In 2000, Caravan was nominated for Academy Award. The film was produced jointly by Nepal and France.

Nepal Film Development Company of Nepal is the central agency established to encourage the good cinema processing and development in the country. The primary goal of the NFDC is to plan, promote and organize an integrated and efficient development of the Nepali film industry and foster excellence in cinema. Over the years NFDC has provided a wide range of services essential to the growth of Nepali cinema. The NFDC (and its predecessor the Royal Nepal Film Development Company (NFDC)) has so far funded / produced over 230 films. These films, in various Nepali languages and some of ethnic languages, have been widely acclaimed and have won many national awards.

Mr. Uddav Poudel now the Chairman of NFDC pioneered many technological advances at NFDC, including blowing up 16mm film to 35 mm and introducing advanced color correction processes in Nepal.