The Netherlands Film Fund awarded over €550,000 in subsidies to a feature film by Peter Greenaway, starring Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt, that never made it to the screen. The uncertainty about whether the movie would ever be released existed from the outset, but the Film Fund ignored its own rules and fronted the production money without doing the proper checks, according to an investigation by Nieuwsuur and NRC.

The Netherlands Film Fund awarded over €550,000 in subsidies to a feature film by Peter Greenaway, starring Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt, that never made it to the screen. The uncertainty about whether the movie would ever be released existed from the outset, but the Film Fund ignored its own rules and fronted the production money without doing the proper checks, according to an investigation by Nieuwsuur and NRC.