We're will shortly be accepting applications for our January 2027 IC Training.  Please take a good look at our training website, 'Application Criteria' and 'How to Apply' section in preparation.

We're currently also accepting applications for our Young Performer Support Specialist (YPS) Course.  Head over to the YPS training website for information on how to apply.

Safe Sets 

Intimacy Coordination training and mentoring program

The Process:

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 2024/25 we ran our first independent intimacy coordinator training course, which is welcomed applications from around the world, and 2025/26 saw new funding partners - GIZ, Multichoice Talent Factory Eastern Africa Academy and the Kenya Film Commission, which supported the training for ICs from Kenya and Rwanda, and KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film funding two applicants from KZN.

Our 2026/27 courses do not have any official funding partners, however, we're introducing a long lead time with the hope that participants will have the opportunity to explore funding options locally.  If successful during application process 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.

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 and BECTU Registry Level 2 ICs. 

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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.  To train on a SAG-AFTRA recognised training program the lead trainer needs 200 days, and must be present for 60% of the program.  Two of the Safe Sets training faculty are SAG-AFTRA cleared 200+ Days ICs, and Safe Sets aims to ensure at least 85% of classes are taught by one or other of these training.