I have spoken at length about my distaste for all of the breathless coverage of You Can See Everything, but I haven't really elaborated.
You Can See Everything was (co-)directed by Lance Oppenheim.
I have a good friend who was a subject and participant in a Lance Oppenheim documentary.
She has been very outspoken about the ways he violated her trust, and a written contractual agreement, to exploit incarcerated people and their families.
You can see her statement here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dep3JI2ioHH/
One of the other people involved recently published this: https://setforsentencing.substack.com/p/i-was-one-of-lance-oppenheims-first (My appollogies for the substack link, but that's the platform he used.)
In both cases, it is abundantly clear to me that, even if no law was broken, Lance's behavior certainly transgressed some ethical boundaries.
See Katie (and the other people at the Film Festival Lance apparently manipulated himself into attending) makes mitigation films.
These are documentaries about the lives of people on trial, made with the intent of humanizing the people who are on trial. It is my understanding that this work is very effective at securing reduced sentences for people who have been convicted.
Oppenheim, apparently, promised not to use any footage from any of these films. He did it anyway.
And in the process he heavily implied that this work, which had been very successful in securing reduced sentences particularly for poor people of color, was dishonest and manipulative.