Become a Certified Intimacy Coordinator for Film and Television
CINTIMA offers a complete training pathway from Module I through Certification, designed to prepare aspiring and working professionals for the artistic, ethical, and practical realities of intimate storytelling on screen.
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This short training overview walks you through CINTIMA’s approach to intimacy coordination, what the certification path includes, and how our program prepares trainees for the real demands of the work.
Watch to learn about the curriculum, certification path, and the values that shape our training.
Why Intimacy Coordination Matters
Intimate storytelling deserves both artistry and care.
Intimacy coordination is not only about compliance. It is about creating the conditions for intimate storytelling to be ethical, intentional, repeatable, and dramatically effective.
The role calls for more than instinct. It requires process, communication, embodied practice, and the ability to collaborate under the real pressures of production.
CINTIMA was built to train intimacy coordinators for that reality.
Why Train With CINTIMA?
CINTIMA combines field-shaping leadership, film-specific practice, and a structured certification pathway designed to prepare Intimacy Coordinators for the real demands of the work.
Film-Specific Training
Built for the actual pace, language, and collaboration of screen production.
Artistry and Safety
Learn to support intimate storytelling with both consent-based rigor and creative intelligence.
Structured Professional Pathway
Move progressively from Module I through Certification with clear milestones and increasing depth.
Certification With Integrity
Certification reflects demonstrated readiness, not simply access to course materials.
Who This Training Is For
CINTIMA supports aspiring and working professionals across the U.S. and internationally, offering an online training pathway that makes it possible to begin from anywhere and progress toward in-person study in Los Angeles.
Aspiring Intimacy Coordinators
For those ready to build a serious foundation and pursue a professional path into the field, with a structured pathway that can begin online from wherever they are based.
Working Film and TV Professionals
For directors, producers, choreographers, performers, and collaborators who want deeper fluency around intimacy and stronger tools for ethical, effective on-set process.
Artists Seeking Real Rigor
For people who value embodied practice, clear standards, and skillful intimate storytelling, and want training designed to meet the real demands of the work.
CINTIMA’s certification pathway is designed to help you step into intimacy coordination as a real professional practice. You will build the confidence, credibility, and collaborative skill to support intimate storytelling with clarity and care.
Lead Consent-Based Process
Learn how to guide intimate work through clear communication, boundary practices, documentation, and performer-centered process. Build the confidence to help create conditions where everyone understands the plan, the limits, and the support in place.
Choreograph Intimate Action
Develop the ability to shape intimate moments with intention, clarity, repeatability, and storytelling purpose. Learn how to support scenes that are emotionally grounded, technically precise, and safe to rehearse and perform.
Build the Skills to Work as an effective Department Head
Build the professional fluency to collaborate with directors, producers, ADs, costume, hair and makeup, camera, legal, and performers. Learn how to function as a clear, trusted part of the production process while developing the leadership, communication, and workflow skills needed to operate effectively.
Hold Both Care and Craft
Train to support intimate storytelling with both emotional intelligence and artistic rigor. Develop a practice that honors consent and safety while also serving the creative demands of performance, story, and screen language.
CINTIMA’s curriculum is designed to build your knowledge, practice, and professional readiness step by step, from introductory frameworks through applied choreography and certification-stage assessment.
The Foundations of Intimacy Coordination
Administrative skills, including organization, scheduling, and contract preparation.ntroduction to the history and role of intimacy coordination in the entertainment industry.
Understanding power dynamics and implementing consent-based frameworks.
Developing self-care practices for sustained professional well-being.
Familiarization with SAG-AFTRA standards and protocols.
15 lessons
~1 month
Soft Skills and Sensitivity Training
Comprehensive sexuality education
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI+B) practices.
Trauma-informed care and awareness for working with performers sensitively.
Anti-sexual harassment training to foster safe, respectful work environments.
Strategies for bystander intervention and promoting on-set accountability.
Technical and Logistical Mastery
Detailed guidance on pre-production, production, and post-production processes.
Advanced script analysis with a focus on intimate storytelling.
Creating and managing intimacy riders to protect performers’ boundaries.
Proper use of modesty garments, barriers, and other practical tools.
Navigating set protocols, including actor rehearsals and working with directors.
Live, Hands-On Choreography Workshop
Practical experience in intimate choreography for scenes of connection.
Training on body positioning, camera angles, and barrier use.
Simulated production environments, from base camp setup to wrap-up.
Real-time feedback on your choreography and coordination skills.
Collaboration with performers and directors in a safe, supportive setting.
Live Workshop
4 Days
CERTIFICATION STAGE
Once trainees complete all four modules they advance to the certification stage. Here, they put their knowledge and skills into action, participating in real-world scenarios under expert mentorship. This stage includes completing a short film project, obtaining Mental Health First Aid certification, and undergoing a professional background check. Trainees receive personalized feedback and gain on-set experience, ensuring they are fully prepared to lead safe, authentic, and collaborative intimate storytelling. Graduates leave the program certified to meet SAG-AFTRA standards and ready to excel as professional intimacy coordinators.
Real-world Practical
Time varies per trainee
Choose Your Path
👀 Payment Plans Available
Enroll in the full certification bundle for the most complete pathway, or begin with Module I as your first step.
The Certification Bundle includes the full pathway from Module I through the Certification Stage and offers the strongest value for trainees committed to completing the full process.
Modules I - IV + Certification
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Full Certification Course
Community Access
Bi-Weekly Support Webinars
Direct Instructor Support
Module I
$599
Foundations
Start your training here
Full Intro Course
Community Access
Bi-Weekly Webinars
Email Support
Module II
$1999
Soft Skills
Soft skills
Community Access
Bi-Weekly Webinars
Email Support
Must Complete Module I to Enroll
Module III
$2999
Hard Skills
Hard Skills
Community Access
Bi-Weekly Webinars
Email Support
Must Complete Module II to Enroll
Module IV
$2099
Live Choreography
Live Choreo Training
4 Days in Los Angeles
Must Complete Module III to Enroll
Certification
$799
The Certification Stage
1-on-1 Mentorship
Final Film Project
Background Check
Must Complete Module IV to Enroll
Meet CINTIMA
Train With a Program Built by Leaders in the Field
CINTIMA was founded and is led by professionals who have been shaping intimacy coordination since 2007. That experience informs every part of our certification pathway, creating a program grounded in real industry practice, not theory alone.
Our leadership has been part of the field’s movement toward safer sets, stronger standards, and a clearer path into the profession. As the first online training organization in Intimacy Coordination, CINTIMA helped create a more accessible, structured route into the field and has continued to refine what effective online learning for this work truly requires.
When you train with CINTIMA, you are learning from people who have helped shape the profession itself. Our program is designed not just to deliver information, but to build real readiness through progressive learning, practical application, and the skills needed to support intimate storytelling with care, clarity, and professionalism.