Film Location Finland is a two-year EU-funded project carried out by the POEM Foundation designed to market and maximise Finland as a shooting location for screen product.

In July 2010, Olsberg•SPI was commissioned by Screen West Midlands to conduct high-level market research and intelligence to capture and analyse Screen West Midlands' funded clients, networks, and stakeholders’ perceptions of the quality of its services, and more generally, its overall offer.

SPI was retained by Cinecitta to write a paper examining the strategies used by governments around the world to realise the economic benefits of the film industry and suggest possible strategies for the Italian government to adopt.

SPI recently completed a review of this low budget film production/training programme which involved a confidential workshop with funded clients, gathering and testing their evaluations of all aspects of the programme.

Second Light is a new programme, developed and run by First Light, which is supporting a large group of BME early-career professionals in their career development.

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.

Jonathan Olsberg participated in the teaching of the CASS Film MBA. He worked with students on a number of areas and helped organised a number of other guest tutors to participate in the MBA.

This assignment involved evaluating the economic impact in New South Wales, and Australia as a whole, of the agency’s production investment fund.

This assignment involved a complete review of all state aid issues (covering film funds as well as studio support) for both the European Film Agency Directors and regional fund association, CineRegio.

SPI conducted an economic map of the value of the independent television sector in the Northwest. This was the first full-scale exercise of its kind conducted in the region.

SPI, with partner consultants in the North East, was commissioned by Northern Film and Media to undertake a feasibility study to identify options for the delivery of a “Creative Industries Intellectual Property Investment Fund” in the North East.

SPI was retained by Manchester City Council to evaluate the area of the city in which Granada’s offices and facilities were based as the possible location of a digital media cluster.

SPI was retained by Scottish Enterprise to assist and advise on a tender process for a new film and television studio in Scotland.

SPI was retained to conduct a study of the film and broadcast sectors in the English regions of London, the East and the South East.

As part of its initiative to attract productions from India to film in the UK, Film London retained SPI to develop a framework of practical guidelines for incoming Indian producers.

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

SPI was hired to conduct three separate assignments to explore the feasibility of creating a Highlands and Islands Film Fund and a fund in each of Jersey and Guernsey. The study considered and recommended a framework for the fund’s operation and identified the benefits that would result from its creation.

SPI was retained to conduct a feasibility study into the possible creation of a new fund to invest in local and incoming productions in order to expand inward investment and increase exports. The assignment included an assessment of competing Northern European film production centres (London, Hamburg, Berlin, Trollhattan in Sweden).