SAG-AFTRA Publishes Listing Of Certified Intimacy Coordinators – Deadline

SAG-AFTRA, as a part of its efforts to create a safer work setting for actors performing in scenes involving nudity, simulated intercourse and different intimate scenes, has launched a listing of certified and skilled intimacy coordinators.

The checklist contains the names and call data for 40 intimacy coordinators from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia who’ve met the union’s really useful requirements for {qualifications}, vetting and coaching — and who’ve a minimal of 60 days of expertise — in addition to the names of 5 others who’ve proof of coaching and no less than 25 days of expertise.

See the checklist right here.

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher mentioned:

“As we, in the end, transfer right into a time the place a performer’s private house issues, a brand new discipline has emerged: intimacy coordinators. This is a vital step ahead for all SAG-AFTRA members and can enhance the environment on units and in productions requiring intimate scenes. With the presence of the intimacy coordinator, performers will probably be protected in probably weak conditions.

“These professionals perform as an advocate and liaison between performers and productions, facilitating communications and serving to with motion and choreography when nudity and intimate scenes are being filmed. It’s as a lot to the good thing about the manufacturing as it’s for the performer.

“Lengthy gone is the time when married characters are shot sleeping in twin beds, so the necessity for specifically skilled intimacy coordinators must be half and parcel of each manufacturing that entails nudity, simulated intercourse or hyper-exposed scenes. With the arrival of intimacy coordinators to any manufacturing, we proceed to maneuver the needle ahead to making a extra honorable business that’s respectful to the sentiments of all these contributors who make it nice.”

“SAG-AFTRA has labored arduous in cooperation with the intimacy coordinator neighborhood to determine requirements that may be sure that producers have entry to certified intimacy coordinators to work with our members on SAG-AFTRA productions,” mentioned Duncan Crabtree-Eire, the union’s nationwide government director. “Intimacy coordinators are an important safety for performers working in intimate scenes. This important useful resource will additional normalize and promote the usage of intimacy coordinators, serving to to vary the tradition in Hollywood and past.”

Learn SAG-AFTRA’s Beneficial Requirements for {Qualifications}, Coaching & Vetting of Intimacy

SAG-AFTRA famous that its registry and pre-registry lists “are supplied as a useful resource for employers for informational functions solely and will not be meant to indicate an endorsement of any particular person or firm by SAG-AFTRA.”

The discharge of the lists follows the institution final yr of the primary industrywide accreditation for intimacy coordinator coaching packages and construct on the Requirements and Protocols for the Use of Intimacy Coordinators initially launched in January 2020. “Collectively,” SAG-AFTRA mentioned, “the accreditation requirements, protocols and registries will assist defend and help SAG-AFTRA members and guarantee they can work in a fashion that maintains their private {and professional} dignity whereas realizing a director’s artistic imaginative and prescient.”