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Belgian film group Umedia has come a long way since 2004, when Adrian Politowski, Nadia Khamlichi and Jeremy Burdek first set up offices in a house in Brussels owned by their friend’s grandmother.

“We started in a room of 12 square metres, with little prior professional experience,” recalls Politowski.

Having left London, where he was looking to establish himself as a producer, the young entrepreneur worked with his two partners to set up a fund structured around Belgium’s newly created tax shelter for foreign productions.

They raised $1.4m in their first year.

Nearly 10 years and 200 films later, the company now raises around $80m a year in tax shelter funds for co-productions but has evolved into a production company serving as one of the producers involved with Oscar winner The Artist and the upcoming Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman.

The firm launched a distribution company for Benelux in 2010 and releases around 15 films a year in the region; a VFX operation with