The Film Export Group (FEG), representing a range of stakeholders, bodies and organisations including the British Council, UK Trade & Investment, Film Export UK, UK Screen Association, and the UK Film Council, has been working across the film sector since 2002 to coordinate strategic action for film export activity.

SPI carried out an evaluation into the potential structure of and market for a new MBA-style academy delivering business skills to executives in or wanting to join, the UK film sector.

SPI mapped the UK’s film sales sector’s economic activity, based upon a comprehensive questionnaire, supported by selected confidential interviews.

For the UKFC’s Monitoring and Evaluation department, SPI has analysed, for internal use, various UKFC activities to assess their impact on the UK’s film ecology.

SPI has been hired to manage a review, over a three year period, of the UK Film Council’s £3 million fund to support access to moving image archive material. The work has involved design and construction of a toolkit to enable long-term review of the progress of activities funded by the programme.

In early 2010, SPI was commissioned by UK Film Council to produce a report that would assist the UK Film Council Board in its deliberations on a possible new paradigm for building UK-based film companies of scale (where film production is a major element of the business model).

SPI was retained in each of the four English regions listed above, in response to the Film Council’s English regional strategy, to perform analyses of the strategies of the screen agencies and to recommend alternative structures of policy delivery.

SPI examined the UK Film Council’s track record in supporting the development of major film talent (producers, directors and writers) including a dozen case studies and a set of recommendations for enhancing their efforts in the future.

SPI was hired by the UK Film Council in 2008 as the monitoring and evaluation partner of its £3 million Digital Film Archive Fund, The DFAF fund represents a stream of National Lottery funding, operated by the UK Film Council. The fund has been delegated by the UKFC to the 9 Regional Screen Agencies to enable them to fund projects that enhance public access to UK’s screen heritage. This work is ongoing

Olsberg|SPI, on behalf of a major film agency, recently conducted an extensive review of how far the international public policy environment helps build industry sustainability through the emergence of film companies of scale.

SPI was commissioned by the UK Film Council (UKFC) to undertake a detailed and objective review of the UKFC's support to talent (writers, producers, and directors) since its inception. This was the first study of its kind to be conducted in the UK. Key findings and strategic recommendations were put forward by SPI.