Olsberg•SPI recently undertook work for the Italian Trade Commission and the Association of Italian Film Commissions on the appeal of the Italian film and television industry in the UK.

Olsberg••SPI is undertaking comprehensive evaluation reviews of two of NF&M’s leading specialist funds.

Olsberg••SPI continues to advise the Alliance and co-ordinate its recent submissions to the DCMS Film Policy Review and the BFI’s international policy review.

Jonathan Olsberg spoke at the Screen Singapore 2012 conference focussing on co-producing films with China.

In its first collaboration with the Association of Film Commissions International (AFCI), Olsberg•SPI sponsored, and Jonathan Olsberg moderated, a conference during the Berlin Film Festival which examined the opportunities and challenges faced by film commissions around the Globe.

For this new client, Olsberg•SPI is undertaking a research assignment into the current implementation of the European Audio Visual Media Services Directive in a selection of European countries and regions.

Olsberg•SPI has been commissioned to analyse the feasibility of CECI and design the future structures and mechanisms to incite co-operation by professionals and public broadcasters of the region, and synergies that can enhance both production and circulation of films from the region.

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.

Jonathan Olsberg was a keynote speaker at the 2010 SPAA annual conference, where the key findings contained in SPI's forthcoming report on building sustainable film businesses were discussed. The session addressed strategies for creating successful, international film businesses in a rapidly changing digital world.

Olsberg•SPI carried out a research and analysis study into two important programmes which Northern Film and Media ran in recent years: The Network Television Investment Fund and the subsequent Content Fund Extension.

As part of the Nordic Film Prize 2010, Jonathan Olsberg on behalf of AGICOA, a not for profit membership organisation that collects retransmission royalties, delivered and moderated a session on how producers/rights holders could build sustainable content businesses.

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.

The theme of this year's Screen International’s Annual Film Summit was "Building sustainable film businesses fit for new commercial realities".

For the University of Glamorgan SPI created a development strategy for a new film academy focused on the needs of the UK’s audiovisual sector.

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 produced a report in 2010 about the facilities sector in the UK and its sizeable contribution to the UK’s wider film and television industry.

In his lecture to an audience of over 200 at the film industry event held in Munich, Jonathan Olsberg discussed to what extent tax-incentive models could make the film industry more sustainable and developed.

Jonathan Olsberg chaired a seminar on how to make the best use of the co-production treaty between the UK and India, at the Frames Entertainment Conference, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in 2009.

At the Santiago Film Seminar hosted by La Universidad de las Comunicaciones (UNIACC), Jonathan presented on the subject of new modes of distribution to an audience of selected producers, distributors and cinema owners invited by APCT.

Jonathan Olsberg presented an overview of tax shelter models for the film industry, with a special focus on the European context.