What is an Intimacy Coordinator?
An Intimacy Coordinator is a liaison between actors, producers and directors for scenes involving nudity, simulated sex and hyper exposure of minors.
By facilitating an environment where the director’s vision can be honored without jeopardizing the safety or consent of actors, we can collectively create impactful scenes that sweep audiences off their feet and take their breath away.
What does an Intimacy Coordinator do?
The work of an intimacy coordinator is collaborative and as such, there are many ways that an intimacy coordinator can support a director’s creative vision while advocating for actors in a way that results in the best, most believable performances on screen. Here is just an idea of the many ways an intimacy coordinator can support your production:
Facilitates clear communication between actor, director & producer to ensure all parties understand the creative vision and agree on the way it will be filmed.
Supports actors in emotionally preparing for intense intimacy scenes such as simulated sexual violence, ensuring their psychological safety before, during and after the scene is filmed.
Collaborates with other departments to facilitate logistics involving scenes of nudity and simulated sex, ensuring a smooth production process.
Ensures actors boundaries are respected at all times, including during the filming of the scene, and supporting any shifts in those boundaries in real time so the production can keep moving in a way that it’s in alignment with both creative and the actor’s boundaries.
Supports minors in scenes involving familial intimacy such as snuggling or hyper exposure such as taking a bath, being on a toilet or in a bathing suit.
Ensures closet set protocols and SAG-AFTRA guidelines are being followed.
Ensures the actors have a working environment that is both physically and psychologically safe for them.
Serves as an on-set ally for LGBTQIA+ cast and crew members.
When requested, creates choreography of simulated sex scenes to enhance authenticity and believability.
Consults on scenes and storylines involving non-monogamy, kink, BDSM and alternative lifestyles to enhance authenticity.
If you’d like to know more about how an intimacy coordinator can support your production, whether or not there is simulated sex or nudity, I would love to hop on a call with you.
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As a certified intimacy coordinator Arielle works with the production, director and the actors to ensure the creative vision is achieved while keeping actors safe and informed, helping the production running efficiently on schedule for scenes involving nudity and simulated sex. She ensures all union, legal and studio protocols are being followed, and that boundaries and consent are being respected at all times.
If requested, Arielle will also assist with choreography of simulated sex as well as scenes involving pole dancing and burlesque performances.
As a Production Consultant Arielle works with writers, directors, actors and department heads to ensure accurate and believable storytelling in the areas of non-monogamy, polyamory, alternative lifestyles and family structures, kink / BDSM, sex work, pole dancing and burlesque. She will work with creatives to ensure sensitivity, authentic storytelling and harm-reduction in how these communities are represented on screen.
Arielle also brings her production expertise to sexuality professionals, sexual wellness brands and pleasure products by helping them create systems and structures to sustainably produce their own content and build their brands through advertising, podcasting, video content and operations support.
As a Certified Sex Educator Arielle is available for speaking engagements and workshops on a variety of topics such as understanding and expressing sensuality, exploring intimacy, sexual dysfunction, STI education & prevention, non-monogamy & alternative lifestyles, kink & BDSM, the pleasure gap, sexuality & gender, understanding sexual harassment and more.
She is available for 1:1 coaching calls, couple / throuple / polycule calls, members clubs, play parties, employee trainings, production companies, writer’s rooms, organizations, and collaborations with sexual wellness and pleasure product brands.