Amyale
Amyale is a production company based in Los Angeles and New York City. We develop original features and series alongside adaptations of novels and other IP, with stories and partnerships that span the US, South Asia and the Middle East.
Film and television development
Amyale develops film and television across genres and formats, partnering with studios, streamers and talent-driven production companies. Past developed projects include an adaptation of Juleah Del Rosario’s novel 500 Words or Less, developed with Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another and Amazon Studios, and Sharon Creech’s Newbery Medal–winning Walk Two Moons, developed with Heyday Films, the producers of Harry Potter.
Amyale developed Chloe Gong’s New York Times bestseller These Violent Delights as a series with Oscar winner Regina King’s Royal Ties, and Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, one of TIME’s 100 best fantasy books of all time, with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta.
Amyale also developed Wasta, an original drama series set among Dubai’s South Asian workforce, with SK Global and Ivanhoe Pictures, the companies behind Crazy Rich Asians and the International Emmy–winning Delhi Crime.
Amyale is currently producing the feature Sonata, originally developed with Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions.
About the Founder
Amyale was founded by filmmaker Manaal Khan. Raised in the Middle East by South Asian parents, Manaal attended UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Along with directing several commercials, music videos and branded content, Manaal has also written and directed work including “Winners,” starring Matt Rife, for the Amazon Prime anthology After Masks, and a short for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV, where the horror slate she produced earned a nod from The Wall Street Journal. Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative selected her as a directing mentee on Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star.
She co-wrote the horror feature Model House, released in theaters by Shout! Studios, and her screenplays include an adaptation of My Hands Came Away Red for Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios.
Her producing credits span independent features including Actors Anonymous with Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, The Institute with Pamela Anderson and Josh Duhamel, Tenn with Vincent D’Onofrio and Camp with Emmy nominee Joey King, alongside documentary work including a film on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy for Al Jazeera.