SPI conducted a major review of the development needs of the Northern Ireland film and broadcast sector.

SPI was the international expert member of the team that worked for Chile’s economic development ministry in analyzing Chile’s current offer to international productions (film, television, commercials).

Recognising the increasing competition for portable productions, and threats to the local film sector, the Czech Ministry of Culture hired SPI to analyse the sector.

SPI has completed dozens of studies for national and regional film commissions, from Chile to Finland to Australia and many countries in-between.

In separate assignments, SPI advised both the Australia Film Commission and Film Finance Australia on the best way forward to implement government policy which required the two agencies (development and production finance) to merge.

SPI was hired to assess the organisational structure and capabilities of the Irish Film Board and recommend a new structure that would enable it to meet the demands of the Kilkenny Report, which contained actions required to develop the sector.

SPI has conducted numerous assignments for the British Film Commission, including creating its original strategic business plan, focussed on marketing the UK’s film and television sector.

This was an assignment to evaluate the potential for the growth of the archive as well as possible avenues for its commercial exploitation. In particular, this study examined opportunities for the digitisation of existing content in order to provide wider public access.

SPI undertook a general review of the West Sweden Film Fund and Commission to develop a second 5 year strategy (having been involved in the first strategic plan). SPI also designed and ran a Business Strategies Symposium for Scandinavian film, television and new media producers.

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 developed the idea of a media cluster in Govan Town Hall in Glasgow with client Sigma Films. The idea has since grown into the Film City Glasgow project.

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 assist in the creation of an agenda for the support of the region's digital media cluster. Specifically, the assignment consisted of a review of existing support structures, an identification of appropriate interventions for the sector and an outline of possible impacts from such support, including inward investment and exports.

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.