Directors Amber Sealey and Joe Berlinger got caught up in a feud, ahead of the June 11 Tribeca premiere of Sealey’s Ted Bundy pic No Man of God.

The quarrel began with an email Berlinger sent to Sealey, after noticing interviews in which she discussed the glorification of Bundy in American culture.

In these interviews, he felt she was comparing her film favorably to others made about the infamous serial killer—including two of his own—implying that past films had contributed to the idolization of Bundy, whereas hers does not.

“Forgive the unsolicited advice, but after reading some of your interviews about your Bundy movie, I feel compelled to tell you that tearing down my work to promote yours is a slipper slope and intellectually dishonest and deeply offensive,” Berlinger said in the email, which you can read in its entirety below.

In a statement obtained by Deadline, Sealey says that she found Berlinger’s initial email to be “quite shocking.”.

Sealey says that in interviews, she has simply tried to get across what her film brings to the narrative of Bundy, in comparison to those that have come before.

“I feel like my film says something new and I shouldn’t have to feel shamed or silenced into not commenting on how I think my film is different from the ones that came before,” she wrote.

In a statement obtained by Deadline, Berlinger stood by his initial email, further calling into question the motivations behind Sealey’s commentary in the press. “Promoting her film about the rape and murder of women by tearing down my film [Extremely Wicked] that was designed to be a victim-focused film about the psychology of betrayal and deception, made with the full support of victim Liz Kendall, played by Lily Collins, and was supported by other victims of Bundy’s crimes felt intellectually dishonest,” he wrote.

In her statement, Sealey maintained that she only shared Berlinger’s email in a public forum because it felt like an attempt to “shame” and “silence” her