CINTIMA cofounder Yehuda Duenyas speaks with Marie Claire about coordinating the intimate scenes in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, collaborating with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, and how consent, trust, and careful preparation support bolder performances.

At CINTIMA's IC-choreo workshop, Jennifer Wilson discovers a world of Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job.

“That’s the magic of what we do,” Yehuda says. Intimacy coordinators make intimacy look seamless—“the same way you don’t see the wires when someone is falling off a building, and you don’t see the crash mat…and all the stuff that goes into throwing someone out of a window.”

CINTIMA corralled a group of creatives to serve on Flicker Festival’s first annual jury including acclaimed actress Danielle Deadwyler and filmmakers Miranda Bailey, Amanda Kramer, Roxy Sorkin and more.

Duenyas: We make sure that the sets are closed, we make sure monitors are flagged, we make sure personnel necessary to the filming of the scene are on set.

FLICKER is back, and The Wrap is talking about it. We want bold short films and scene excerpts that treat intimacy like the craft it is.

Inside CINTIMA's First-Ever Intimacy Coordinators Film Festival

After a sold-out inaugural year, Cintima is bringing its Flicker Festival back to Los Angeles on Oct. 22. Launched in 2025, the SAG-AFTRA-accredited intimacy coordinator training org’s event is billed as a first-of-its-kind curated festival celebrating intimacy-as-art in cinema.

CINTIMA's Innaugural FLICKER Festival premieres in Los Angeles