Based in Los Angeles and London, Resala is a new film and TV production company dedicated to telling stories about Arab and Muslim history and experience. It has recently secured initial funding to produce two projects: a Middle East-based historical epic and a US-based court drama.
Projects:
The Gate of Heaven: traces the journey of Islam from its birth in Mecca in 610 BC until the conquest of Jerusalem in 639 by Caliph Umar Ibn Al Khattab.
The LA 8 : a TV Series that follows the 25-year legal battle of 7 Palestinian men and one Kenyan woman against the US authorities, who fabricated terrorism accusations against them in order to deport them from the US.
Husam (Sam) Asi 