Bayou Blue: Interview with Directors Alix Lambert and David McMahon

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Bailey and Chelsea interview Alix Lambert and David McMahon, the directors behind documentary Bayou Blue. For almost ten years, serial killer Ronald Dominique (AKA the Bayou Strangler) raped and murdered twenty-three men in poverty-stricken Southeastern Louisiana. Despite the number of victims, this case was not deemed worthy of national coverage by media outlets. Bayou Blue explores the difficulties surrounding Dominique’s identification and arrest which ranged from the underfunding of law enforcement to a lack of advocacy support for the victims’ families, to economic issues that perhaps distracted from the identification of a serial killer who was wreaking havoc from the late nineties to the mid two-thousands. A little about our honored guests, Alix Lambert and David McMahon:

Alix Lambert has directed and produced three feature length documentaries: The Mark of Cain, Bayou Blue, and Mentor. The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, received an honorable mention from the French Association of Journalism, and aired on Nightline. She was a writer on the HBO show Deadwood and a writer/producer on John from Cincinnati. Lambert recently directed The Woods Are Real, which had its world premiere at The Lower East Side Film Festival, May, 2023. Alix is the author of Crime, The Silencing, and Courtroom and she is currently at work on CRIME: IRELAND.

David McMahon has a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of California-San Diego and has produced and directed two documentary feature films. His first film, Bayou Blue was co-directed with Alix Lambert, and premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam. His second film, the award-winning Skanks, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. In addition to producing and filmmaking, David has taught at UCSD and Birmingham-Southern College. He also is on the board of Trinity Place Shelter, a shelter for LGBT youth in Manhattan, and serves on the advisory board of the Sidewalk Film Festival.

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