How directors should work with intimacy coordinators. We're collaborators.

The role of the Intimacy Coordinator is still relatively new, and that creates a challenge for producers and directors: How do you know whether the person you are hiring is actually prepared to do the job? A certificate, accreditation, roster placement, or completion of a recognized training program can tell you that someone has met a particular set of requirements. It cannot tell you how that person will function on your set. And when you are hiring someone whose job involves performer...

For a brief moment, it felt like Hollywood had finally heard us. After decades of whispered warnings, open secrets, careers destroyed for speaking up, and harmful behavior dismissed as simply part of the business, the #MeToo movement forced the entertainment industry to confront something it had spent generations learning how not to see. And things changed. We should not diminish that. Conversations that once happened quietly in dressing rooms and trailers were suddenly happening publicly....