Film Intimacy Professionals

Founded by Kristen Elizabeth after more than a decade of teaching and mentoring filmmakers, actors, and aspiring Intimacy Coordinators, Film Intimacy Professionals was created to address a critical gap in film and acting education. While intimacy is regularly depicted on screen, training in how to film it safely, ethically, and effectively is often missing. Our mission is to change that by providing affordable, accessible education that raises the standard for intimacy across the industry.

Why this work exists:

Intimacy coordination did not emerge because the industry suddenly became enlightened.
It emerged because people were harmed.

Most training programs focus on what to do on set. Very few examine what failed before those rules were written. That absence matters.

Without understanding why intimacy coordination became necessary, training becomes mechanical. Consent becomes contractual instead of contextual. Protocols become shields rather than tools. And the same conditions that caused harm quietly persist—unexamined, unnamed, and uncorrected.

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We teach this work because we have seen what happens when good intentions replace structure, when actors are expected to manage safety while performing vulnerability, and when the cost of speaking up is higher than the cost of staying silent.

Intimacy coordination is not just about sex.
It is about power, preparation, and protection.

If we do not teach why this role exists, we risk turning it into a formality—one that checks boxes while missing danger.

This is not about policing art. It is about creating conditions where art can exist without exploitation. The work exists because it had to. The cost of forgetting that truth is repetition.