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.

This study involved an evaluation of the screen commission, including an assessment of marketing efforts and the benefits it contributes to the region.

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.

SPI conducted an economic map of the television production sector in the region, based on a combination of questionnaires, surveys and interviews.

SPI was retained to analyse SY’s overall strategy and make recommendations for the future regarding a range of options, including brand development and funding.

SPI conducted a review of the organisation, management and activities of LUFF for its funders to help them consider future funding support.

SPI conducted a comprehensive report on the combined performance and achievements of the English RSAs’ activities during 2001-09 and provided recommendations for a new England-wide strategy.

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

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.

FEG is the UK’s public/private strategy body that is focused on film exports. SPI conducted two assignments for them in 2009/10 that involved members, stakeholders, and others being surveyed.

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.

We are major sponsors of Screen International’s Annual Film Summit, for which we invite speakers to attend and which we moderate.

SPI created a development strategy for this innovative ‘virtual’ archive containing material from 100 years of Northern Ireland history.

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.

SPI was engaged by Hammer Film Holdings Ltd to provide a valuation of the HFHL film stock.

Flame TV is a television production company to whom Jonathan Olsberg has been giving corporate and strategic advice to them for the past several years.

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.

SPI has provided advisory services relating to the intention to create a new fund to invest in feature films. The services required have been twofold; firstly to provide advice on the business and investment strategy for the fund and, secondly, to assist in the preparation of a business plan or prospectus-style document, that articulates this strategy.

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).

Neighbouring Co-production Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia