FRAMES Audiovisual Conference, Mumbai

Filmart and Film Festival, Hong Kong

Office of the British Film Commissioner's Infrastructure Day, London

Erich Pommer Institute, Munich

Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus

Screen Producers Association of Australia Conferences (Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland)

SPI was retained by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to explore and identify possible goals of the Hong Kong film industry and to recommend strategies for achieving those goals.

SPI was retained by the Maltese government to conduct an analysis of the present infrastructure, policies and resources for the film industry in Malta. T

SPI was tasked by the Polish Chamber of Commerce to analyse the environment in Poland for the possible introduction of a new tax incentive, including an assessment of the effectiveness of other tax incentive systems and providing a set of recommendations for what might work in Poland and benefits to be derived.

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.