Code of Silence won Australia's top documentary prize, the Walkley Award. The Judges' comments were: "Code of Silence is a documentary exposure of an Orthodox Jewish family's distressing struggle to tell the truth about child sexual abuse within a well-known Melbourne boys' school. The work is exceptional because of the access negotiated with key players as the drama unfolded. It contributes to public understanding of the magnitude of the failure across institutions, both religious and secular, to protect children because of a more dominant reputational defensiveness. Through actuality and interview, the documentary effectively breaks the "code of silence" which had prevailed to cover up abuse in this close-knit community".