Levantine Films Focuses on Artistic and Educational Projects

The chairman of Crest Investment Company, Jamal Daniel has more than three decades of experience managing investments in the areas of technology, real estate, oil and gas, and manufacturing. Jamal Daniel is also the founder Levantine Films, an independent production company that develops and produces high-quality films.

Established in 2012, Levantine Films seeks out projects that are character-driven and socially relevant. Among the company’s successful films is Hidden Figures, which tells the story of black female NASA mathematicians in the 1960s, and The Fundamentals of Caring, a road trip story starring Paul Rudd, Daniel Craig, and Selena Gomez.

In 2015, Levantine Films produced Beasts of No Nation, which won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice International Film Festival. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, who gained critical acclaim for his direction of 2010’s Jane Eyre, the film stars Idris Elba as a young African boy who joins a group of rebel soldiers.

The Close Relationship Between the Three Major Abrahamic Religions

An accomplished senior administrator in Houston, Texas, Jamal Daniel leads the New Levant Initiative and chairs the Levant Foundation. Jamal Daniel established the Levant Foundation, in part, to further general understanding of the relationship between the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Called “Abrahamic” religions because the figure Abraham looms large in all three of these prevalent, monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have a great deal in common. Abraham plays a major role in the book of Genesis in both the Hebrew Bible of the Jewish people and the Old Testament of the Christian people. Various stories of Abraham also feature prominently in the Islamic tradition, particularly in Surah 37 of the Qur’an.

The oldest monotheistic religion in the world, Judaism dates back nearly 4,000 years. With the advent of Jesus Christ in the first century C.E., Christianity became Judaism’s first major offshoot, as people began to follow Christ’s teachings in great numbers. Developing from both Judeo-Christian and Arabic traditions, Islam developed early in the seventh century C.E.