Surviving Malka Leifer
95 mins
In 2008, allegations emerged that Malka Leifer, the headmistress of the girls' campus of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne's inner south-east, had committed grievous crimes against three young students under her care, sisters Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper. It was the catalyst for a reckoning; but before police investigations could get underway, Leifer fled overseas under the cloak of darkness with the assistance of the school. Thus began an extradition battle that would last for the better part of a decade, and a broader quest for justice that revealed a web of international intrigue, legal loopholes and political corruption as well as a deeper culture of silence around sexual abuse.
Ashley Brown
Self
Matan Akiva
Self
Shana Aaronson
Self
Ben Sapper
Self
Elly Sapper
Self
Nicole Meyer
Self
Ted Baillieu
Self
Dassi Erlich
Self
Aaron Rabinowitz
Self
Yehuda Fried
Self
Meyer Seewald
Self
Leah Boulton
Self
Adam Kamien
Director
Ivan O'Mahoney
Producer
Edwina Waddy
Producer
Joel Pearlman
Producer
Jane Usher
Writer
Ivan O'Mahoney
Writer
Adam Kamien
Writer
Bonnie Elliott
Director of Photography
Jensen Cope
Director of Photography
Marcus Cropp
Director of Photography
Freya Berkhout
Original Music Composer
Jane Usher
Editor