SAG-AFTRA Qualified Intimacy Coordinator Training
Safe Sets
Intimacy Coordination training and mentoring program
Safe Sets is a qualified SAG-AFTRA accredited training program for Intimacy Coordinators and has met the minimum requirements for curriculum and trainer experience. Safe Sets also has Intimacy Coordinators that have met the requirements for the SAG-AFTRA Registry list.
After successfully running four funded and partially funded Intimacy Coordinator training courses for Netflix (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Poland), The NFVF and The IPO (South Africa/The Middle East), and Anica Academy (Italy), Safe Sets are now thrilled to be opening the doors to our first independent training for Intimacy Coordinators.
The Process:
ICs Graduate
After 30 verified days on set, under mentorship, and having fulfilled the course prerequisites, the IC's will graduate and become Safe-Sets Certified IC's. Having Completed the training with Safe Sets, IC's will be eligible to apply to become part of the SAG-AFTRA pre registry and the BECTU and IPG registries - as required.*
What is an Intimacy Coordinator?
An intimacy coordinator, much like a stunt coordinator is a trained professional who brings choreography, clarity, safety and consent to scenes in television and film that contain intimacy, nudity and/or simulated sex and other hyper-exposing scenes. They're a neutral 3rd party, advocate for the actors, creative and choreographic collaborator, consent and boundary facilitator and interdepartmental coordinator.
Intimacy Coordinators come from various backgrounds such as acting, directing, movement coaching, dance/choreography or fight direction etc., and have often been exposed to moments in their professional lives where they've felt Artists have not been seen, heard or appropriately treated during scenes that make them the most vulnerable or exposed. Scenes that can leave artists traumatised or victims of abuse.
Intimacy Coordination is a new and exciting role, and for many a true vocation.
Mission:
As a company founded in South Africa, we acknowledge from a position of experience that intimacy coordination training is prohibitively expensive to few but the very privileged, whether from the Global South, other regions that are economically emerging, or individuals from previously disadvantaged backgrounds who make up the Global majority. In addition, in South Africa, we have a national mandate as a business to apply Broad-based black economic empowerment (BBE) principles to all that we do, which form part of the Government's BBE Empowerment Act, 2003 (as amended).
As such, we have always, as a company, sought to find ways to provide training opportunities for people to whom the price of global courses would be prohibitive and be considered a barrier to learning; this would include previously disadvantaged learners, for example those from the global majority, the LGBTQIA+ community, women re-entering the workforce after childbirth and raising children, other career breaks and people looking to have a second career after previous experience in other departments within the film and tv industry.
It was from this position in 2021-2024 we were able to work with Netflix HR EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), The NFVF and The IPO South Africa, Netflix Production (Poland) and Anica Academy (Italy) to offer a comprehensive intimacy coordinator training course, either fully or partially funded to people with appropriate previous industry experience who would not have otherwise been able to fund their participation in training.
In 2024 we will be launching our first independent intimacy coordinator training course, which is welcoming applications from around the world. Unlike previous courses, the places won't be funded, however, if successful during application we will support any funding applications you may need to make and will offer staggered payment dates, to spread the cost of the course, to those who need.
IC Trainers have worked for:
And More!
Safe Sets is a qualified SAG-AFTRA accredited training program for Intimacy Coordinators and has met the minimum requirements for curriculum and trainer experience. Safe Sets also has Intimacy Coordinators that have met the requirements for the SAG-AFTRA Registry list.
* To be a fully registered on the SAG-AFTRA IC registry the current requirements are a minimum 75 days on set as an IC, and for the pre-registry ICs need to prove 25 days on set as an IC.