While similar, there is a difference between intimacy coordinators and intimacy directors. Intimacy coordinators are intimacy professionals who work on film, television, and performance capture projects. Intimacy coordinators serve the projects they’re hired on in whatever way the production needs them as an actors’ advocate, conduit between production and performers, and movement specialists.

Instances when an Intimacy Coordinator would be needed: 

• Nudity or partial nudity 

• Simulated consensual sex between two or more people 

• Simulated non-consensual sex between two or more people (i.e. rape scenes) 

• Simulated consensual and non-consensual sexual acts (i.e. oral sex, manual stimulation, intimate touching) 

• Simulated sexual violence 

• Simulated self-stimulation (i.e. masturbation) 

• Kissing 

• Any intimacy between youths or between youths and adults 

• Scenes of, or that demand, a heightened state of emotion from performers (i.e. trauma, hysteria) that may put the performer at risk

PIPs’ Intimacy Coordinators

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