Code of Silence (2014)

Code of Silence is an award winning onehour observational documentary that follows the parallel journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his nowsecular son after the son breaks the code of silence in Melbournes ChabadLubavitch community going public with his story about being sexually abused as a student Manny Waks demands the perpetrators be brought to justice as well as the rabbis whom he claims covered it up His father Zephaniah who claims he has been virtually excommunicated for informing secular authorities demands his name be publicly cleared But what price will the father and son pay for blowing the whistle on the leaders of this powerful Jewish sect This is a deeply personal journey filled with intimate emotionally charged and candid behindthescenes moments of two people waging the fight of their lives