About CINTIMA
CINTIMA is a training organization and creative leadership platform advancing the practice of intimacy coordination in film, television, and beyond.
Founded by working professionals who have helped shape the field, CINTIMA brings together artistry, consent-based practice, production fluency, and cultural care to support a more skilled future for intimate storytelling.
Inspire the World to See Intimacy in Everything
At CINTIMA, this has been our core mission from the beginning. We believe intimacy is not peripheral to storytelling or human experience. It shapes how we relate, create, communicate, and care. Through training, leadership, and community, we work to expand how intimacy is understood and practiced in film, television, and beyond.
The CINTIMA Intimacy Coordinator Training program is grounded in four foundational pillars:
Courage
We lead with honesty, accountability, and creative conviction. Courage allows intimate work to be approached directly, with clarity, presence, and the willingness to hold complexity.
Eroticism
We honor desire, embodiment, and intimate storytelling as meaningful parts of human expression. Eroticism is not treated as excess or afterthought, but as an important dimension of art, humanity, and narrative life.
Acceptance
We make space for difference, identity, vulnerability, and lived experience with respect and care. Acceptance asks us to meet people where they are and create conditions where collaboration can be grounded, inclusive, and real.
Safety
We build structures of consent, communication, preparation, and professional practice that support trust and wellbeing. Safety is not the opposite of creativity. It is what makes deeper, more skillful work possible.
Why We Exist
Beyond Film & Television
CINTIMA’s work begins in film and television, but it does not end there. We see intimacy coordination as part of a broader cultural movement toward more thoughtful collaboration, more embodied communication, and more ethical representation.
What happens in rehearsal rooms, on sets, and within creative teams reflects larger questions about power, vulnerability, trust, consent, and care. By helping shape this field, we are also contributing to a wider conversation about how intimacy is understood and practiced across culture.
We believe intimacy deserves more skill, more imagination, and more care, both on screen and beyond it.
Meet CINTIMA
CINTIMA is led by working professionals whose experience spans film, television, live performance, mental health, sexuality education, choreography, producing, and cultural advocacy. Together, they bring an interdisciplinary approach to intimacy coordination grounded in both practice and vision.
Our founders bring together artistry, leadership, systems thinking, and lived experience to help shape the future of intimacy coordination.
Jimanekia Eborn
Co-Founder, Trauma and Sexuality Educator
Jimanekia (she/her) is a Queer Media Consultant, Comprehensive Sex Educator, and Sexual Assault & Trauma Expert. She is the host of Trauma Queen - a podcast mini-series for survivors of assault and our allies. She is also the Founder of Tending The Garden, a nonprofit for sexual assault survivors that have been marginalized. Her work as a sex educator has been featured in Playboy, Cosmo, Nylon and MANY more.
Jimanekia has worked with Intimacy Coordinators in creating content and teaching since 2021, and became one of the co-owners and co-founders of CINTIMA in 2023.
Jimanekia has worked in mental health for over a decade with youth, adolescents, and adults. Jimanekia has led trauma-informed comprehensive sex and sex toy workshops at multiple universities, including Columbia University, Rhodes College, and Claremont. Jimanekia was a keynote speaker at the UCSB Women of Color Conference in 2019 and has been a featured panelist at the Soho House, Revry’s Queer X, Poly Dallas, Converge Con, and GirlSchool LA.
Yehuda Duenyas
Co-Founder, Intimacy Coordinator, Lead Instructor
Yehuda Duenyas (he/him) began his practice in intimacy work in 2007, in theater and performance in New York City. Yehuda continued their intimacy work in Film, Television and Performance, and consistently brings a deep level of authenticity, sensitivity, realism, and playfulness to his work as an intimacy coordinator. Yehuda intuitively creates safe spaces for cast and crew to create their best, safest work that is also stylistically versatile-- from realistic drama, to thriller and horror, comedy, sci-fi, romance, as well as motion capture and VFX. As a part of the LGBTQIA+ community Yehuda brings an authentic voice and perspective to their work.
Yehuda is a Primetime Emmy award-winning experiential commerical director with a focus on immersive new media, storytelling, and technology. His clients have included Intel, Spotify, Netflix, Google, YouTube, Walt Disney Imagineering, Comcast, HBO, Showtime, MGM/UA, among others. He has also directed experiences for properties and brands such as: Game of Thrones, Billions, Audi, Jet Blue, Dixie, and Cathay Pacific. Yehuda's work and collaborations have received a Primetime Emmy award, 2 Webby awards, 8 Cannes Lions, 11 Clios, 2 Facebook awards, and an OBIE award.
Select film and TV credits include: The Land (20th Century TV), I Want Your Sex (Gregg Araki/Blackbear), I Love LA (HBO), The Afterparty Season 2 (SONY/APPLE TV), American Gigolo (Paramount Television/Showtime), Little America Season 2 (NBC/Universal/Apple TV), Westworld Season 4 (HBO), Monster: The Jefferey Dahmer Story (Ryan Murphy/Netflix) and many more.
In addition to his commercial work, Yehuda's collaborative Immersive Theater and installation work has been supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the 9/11 Fund, the Downtown Theater Alliance, the Jerome Foundation, Arts International, Chashama, the Durst Organization, Two-Trees Realty, as well as private funders and donors.
Yehuda holds an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a BA in theater cum laude from Skidmore College, and was a founding member of the award-winning underground democratic theater collaborative The National Theater of The United States America in NYC.
More on Yehuda at www.yehudaintimacy.film
Jaclyn Chantel (she/her) is true multi-hyphenate and has been working in the entertainment industry for over 10 years. After earning her BFA in Acting from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, she has worked in production, directing, casting, and acting. This body of work inspired Jaclyn to begin her work in intimacy coordinating, filling her toolbox with experiences and skills from which to draw as she approaches this important work with actors.
Using Alexander Technique, Alba Emoting, and Viewpoints, Jaclyn is a natural collaborator, and seeks to foster safe spaces while hearing every voice. Jaclyn has also garnered business acumen and developed skills in logistics and management throughout her time in the industry, all of which she is excited to bring as a Co-Founder of CINTIMA.
Faculty, Advisors, and Guest Experts
CINTIMA draws on a broad network of professionals across performance, psychology, production, choreography, advocacy, and education. This interdisciplinary community helps ensure our training remains responsive, relevant, and rooted in real-world practice.
Dr. Donald Grant
Dr. Donald Grant Jr. (he/him) is a trusted thought partner to teams and organizations across the globe.
Ellen Scott
Ellen (she/her) is the author of Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era published by Rutgers
Press, and brings with her a wealth of knowledge on the history of cinema and representation.
Sunny Megatron
Sunny Megatron (she/her) is an award-winning Clinical Sexologist, BDSM & Certified Sexuality Educator, and media personality.
Xian Horn
Xian Horn (she/her) has moderated and spoken at the U.N. many times such as for International Women’s Day and International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Apple, ReelAbilities Film Festival, the ACLU, Microsoft, and more.
Frances Reed
Frances Reed (they/them) is an LMT, passionate about making holistic therapies safe for trans clients by teaching therapists the interpersonal & technical skills to meet the unique needs of trans clients.
Nisha Ahuja
Nisha Ahuja (she/they) is a Certified Intimacy Coordinator (Never Have I Ever, Mayans MC) and Media and Script Consultant with a focus on race, gender, LGBTQ+, disability, kink, and polyamory.
Jonathan (they/them) is an award winning educator, professor, national speaker, freelance journalist, thought leader and media critic who examines the intersections of identity, gender and race in entertainment.
Why Train With CINTIMA
Our programs are designed to prepare trainees for the real artistic, ethical, and collaborative demands of intimate storytelling on screen, while offering film-specific structure, professional guidance, and a clear path forward.
Built for aspiring and working professionals who want a rigorous, film-specific path into intimacy coordination.
