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.
