Adrian Politowski

Adrian Politowski né Murshid born October 1978 is a BAFTAnominated Swedish film producer fund manager and entrepreneur He cofounded and was CEO of Umedia from 2004 to 2019 He currently is the Executive Chairman of the production and financing group Align that he cofounded and ran as CEO 20192024 His career is focused on three areas Entrepreneurship as a cofounder and CEO of both Umedia and Align as well as board of director member of Goodbye Kansas Group listed at NASDAQ First North and the healthtech startup Nordic Executive Medicine Media with 500 film TV productions credited as producer Finance with 650M 730M raised managed and deployed in media financing He has produced and financed films such as the fivetime Academy Awards winner The Artist 2011 Good Luck to You Leo Grande 2022 Fourtime nominated at BAFTA and premiered at Sundance Film 2022 Grace of Monaco 2014 starring Nicole Kidman Official Selection and opening film of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Mandy 2018 starring Nicolas Cage that premiered on Sundance Film Festival 2018 Paws of Fury The Legend of Hank 2022 starring Samuel L Jackson Michael Cera and Ricky Gervais animation feature Little Nicholas Happy As Can Be 2022 that premièred as the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival 2022 won the Cristal Award at Annecy Animation Film Festival and was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Independent Feature Film and The Pod Generation 2023 starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor and premiered in Sundance Film Festival 2023 He also produced the HBO TV series My Brilliant Friend Politowski was born in Stockholm Sweden His birth name is Murshid and he is of Polish and Bangladeshi descent On the paternal side he is the grandson of Nurjahan Murshid and Khan Sarwar Murshid On the maternal side he is the grandson of Mieczyslaw Politowski Politowski attended Oxford University Somerville College from 1996 receiving a Master of Engineering in 2000 First Class Staying on at University of Oxford St Peters College he obtained his second Masters aged 23 a Master of Philosophy in Economics in 2002 Politowski married fellow producer Nadia Khamlichi Together with his exwife they have one son born 2012 Adrian is currently with Swedish modelinfluencer Amanda Gyllensparv He currently splits his time between Los Angeles Brussels and Stockholm Politowski and his partners Nadia Khamlichi his exwife and Jeremy Burdek founded Motion Investment Group in 2004 in Brussels Belgium In 2010 the group rebranded as Umedia formerly stylized uMedia with business divisions of uFund fundraising uFilm production and investment uDream distribution and uFX visual effects In 2019 Politowski and Khamlichi cofounded and launched the production company Align Pictures resigned as CEO and sold his remaining stake in Umedia in 2020 At his departure from Umedia the group had grown into a 100M turnover international production group with 200 staff From 2004 onto 2020 it had raised and financed over 630M produced over 400films and its VFX division has grown into the largest in Benelux Source Article Adrian Politowski from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30