THE LONG WALK: A DANCE WITH HUMANITIES

Philip Lawrence is an actor, writer, director, and film producer who is best known for playing the role of Dr. Maloney in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Philip holds degrees in psychology and law and studied acting at The Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theater in Los Angeles. He is the President/Chief Executive Officer of Bikila the Warrior, Inc. which premiered its first full-length feature film, the small-town mystery Coldwell Spring, at The Theaters at Canal Place in New Orleans in 2022. In conjunction with co-producer Edison Eskeets, The Long Walk: A Dance with Humanities is its second film and first documentary. Edison Eskeets (Navajo/Dine') holds a degree in Fine Arts from Bradley University and is a retired art teacher, headmaster, running coach, and distance runner who is the only human on the planet who has run more than 300,000 lifetime miles. He ran cross country at Gallup High School and finished 10th at the New Mexico state cross country championships during his junior year and placed 6th at the National Junior College Cross Country Championships while running for Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. He is also the former Executive Director of Wings of America whose runner-students have won more than 20 national junior titles. In 2023, he was inducted into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame. This is his first film.