Adrian Politowski


Adrian Politowski is a BAFTA-nominated Swedish film producer, fund manager, and entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of Umedia from 2004 to 2019. He currently is the executive chairman of the production and financing group Align that he co-founded and ran as CEO. His career is focused on three areas:
  • Entrepreneurship as a co-founder and CEO of both Umedia and Align, as well as board of director member of Goodbye Kansas Group and the health-tech startup Nordic Executive Medicine.
  • Media with 500 film & TV productions credited as producer
  • Finance with €650M raised, managed and deployed in media financing
He has produced and financed films such as the five-time Academy Awards winner The Artist, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande , Grace of Monaco starring Nicole Kidman,, Mandy starring Nicolas Cage that premiered on Sundance Film Festival 2018, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank starring Samuel L Jackson, Michael Cera and Ricky Gervais, animation feature Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be. 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 starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor and premiered in Sundance Film Festival. He also produced the HBO TV series My Brilliant Friend.

Personal life

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. Staying on at University of Oxford, he obtained his second Master's aged 23 - a Master of Philosophy in Economics in 2002.
Politowski married fellow producer Nadia Khamlichi. Together with his ex-wife, they have one son, born 2012. Adrian is currently with Swedish model/influencer Amanda Gyllensparv. He "currently splits his time between Los Angeles, Brussels and Stockholm".

Career

Politowski and his partners Nadia Khamlichi and Jeremy Burdek founded Motion Investment Group in 2004 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2010, the group rebranded as Umedia, with business divisions of "uFund, uFilm, uDream and uFX."
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.
In 2019, Politowski and Khamlichi co-founded and launched the production company Align, resigned as CEO and sold his remaining stake in Umedia in 2020.
In 2025, Screen revealed that it had raised a new $120M fund to be deployed over coming years in film & tv productions.
Politowski is currently on the board of directors of the gaming/VFX company and tech group Goodbye Kansas since 2022, is a member of the advisory board of WIFTI and is Chairman of Nordic Executive Medicine.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotesRefs
2008Asterix at the Olympic GamesCo-producer
2010Outside the LawCo-producer
2011ArtistCo-producer
2011A Monster in ParisCo-producer
21.09.2012ErasedProducer
2012What's in a Name?Co-producer
2012BlancanievesExecutive producer
2013Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock HeartCo-producer
2013Me, Myself and MumCo-producer
14.05.2014Grace of MonacoCo-producer
2014La Famille BélierCo-producer
2014Yves Saint-LaurentCo-producer
2017Le BrioCo-producer
2017RevengeCo-producer
2017Journey's EndExecutive Producer
2017What Happened to MondayCo-producer
09.09.2017I Kill GiantsProducer
2018Swimming with MenExecutive Producer
19.01.2018MandyProducer
2019Guns AkimboExecutive Producer
2019Le Belle EpoqueCo-producer
2019Fisherman's FriendsExecutive Producer
2019Extra OrdinaryExecutive Producer
2019The MustangProducer
18.11.2018-2020My Brilliant FriendCo-producerTV series, seasons 1-2
2020Rogue CityExecutive Producer
08.10.2020Blithe SpiritProducer
22.07.2022Paws of Fury: The Legend of HankExecutive Producer
2022Good Luck to You, Leo GrandeProducer
2022Little Nicholas: Happy As Can BeProducer
2023The Pod GenerationExecutive Producer
2023The InventorProducer
2024Magpie Executive Producer
2024Sting Executive Producer
2024Kensuke's Kingdom Producer
2025JimpaExecutive Producer
2025The Thing with Feathers Executive Producer