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Brent N. Clarke
Director Joe Berlinger, who has previously directed movies like Brother’s Keeper, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Crude, Intent To Destroy, and Director Amber Sealey, who has previously acted in The Good Night, Big Nothing, and also directed movies like A Plus D, How to Cheat, and No Light and No Land Anywhere, have been at loggerheads with each other with regard to their respective movies about the infamous Ted Bundy, the American serial killer who is infamous for kidnapping and murdering numerous young women and girls during the 1970s.
The feud between the directors apparently began with an email sent by Berlinger, who has directed two pieces on Ted Bundy – ‘Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes’, and ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’, to Sealey who has directed her version of the story on the serial killer titled No Man of God. The email was written by Berlinger after noticing interviews by Sealey in which she discussed the glorification of Ted Bundy in the American culture. In the interviews, Berlinger said that he felt she was comparing her film No Man of God favorably to others made about the infamous serial killer, which also includes two of his own, implying that the previous films had contributed to the idealizing Bundy, whereas hers, as she claims, does not.
Sealey, in a statement given to Deadline, said that she found the email quite shocking. And in an attempt to include a larger conversation, she also shared the email from Berlinger in a public forum like Instagram. She also said that she did so because it felt like an attempt to shame her and silence her.