News Articles
2023
Intimacy Coordinator Explains How They Make Sex Scenes Look Real and Feel Safe – PinkNews
How to Make Sex Scenes Look Good (Without Anyone Feeling Weird) – Movie Maker Magazine
5 Questions For Indie Filmmakers at PIFF16 – Tinel & Tine
Perfectly Good Moment Film Review – Cyclops At The Cinema
Interview With Actor, Writer And Producer Amanda Jane Stern For PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT – Film Inquiry
Psychosexual revenge drama ‘Perfectly Good Moment’ to play Fort Myers Film Festival – Florida Weekly
The Psychosexual Thriller You Don’t Want to Miss at the Unrestricted View Film Festival – Cinamago
2022
Acacia.gay Is Manifesting Diversity Through Authenticity – OhHey.gay
Let’s Get Intimate: PROVOKR’S Amanda Jane Stern Films Sex Scenes – Provokr
Alden Peters: Representation Should Be Unapologetic – Film Pin Society
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: The Controversy of Last Tango In Paris – Provokr
1st Trailer Drops for Feminist Erotic Thriller “Perfectly Good Moment” – Cinema Femme
2021
Acacia.gay Coordinates Cinematic Intimacy – OhHey.gay
2017
“Working with Acacia was a GAME CHANGER. I cannot recommend them enough, whether your depicted intimacy is sexual, familial, or trauma-based.”
– Alden Peters
Representation Should Be Unapologetic – Film Pin Society
“When we got to the first rehearsal, Acacia was coming knowing what both of us had said. But neither of us knew what each other had said. So neither of us were put in a position [of saying] ‘Well, they said they were OK with that, so now I have to say I am.'”
– Amanda jane stern
Interview with Actor, writer and producer amanda jane stern – film inquiry
In Intimacy rehearsals, I would begin by leading a few acting exercises, and then Acacia would lead intimacy exercises. In each rehearsal these exercises had a different focus depending on the scene we were tackling. Sometimes I participated (the yoga was great!) but for the majority of them I watched Acacia lead Stephen and Amanda.
– LAUREN GREENHALL
How to Make Sex Scenes Look Good (Without Anyone Feeling Weird) – Movie Maker Magazine
I want to make the scene look as great as possible, as natural as possible. I want to make sure the actors don’t have a dead limp hand when they’re making out, or if I’m hearing the breathing and it sounds weird I’ll help them with that.
– acacia dëqueer
Queer intimacy coordinator explains how they make sex scenes: ‘Our bodies don’t know it’s simulated’