What Is an Intimacy Professional?
What Is an Intimacy Professional? An intimacy professional is an umbrella term for someone who uses consent-based methods to craft scenes of intimacy (including but…
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About Acacia
Acacia DëQueer (fae/they) is a queer disabled white nonbinary intimacy professional, author, educator, and artist residing on the stolen land of the Anishinaabeg (including the Odawa, Ojibwe and Boodewadomi) and Wyandot peoples colonially known as Ann Arbor, Michigan. Acacia has intimacy coordinated films which have appeared in over 30 festivals including the Out on Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto, San Fransisco Indie Fest, the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY), Chelsea Film Festival, and NewFest to name a few. Fae have lectured on intimacy for screen and stage at universities and colleges, published in the Journal of Consent-Based Performance, and served as a Committee Member for the National Society of Intimacy Professionals where fae help to prioritize diversity and accessibility within the intimacy professionals industry. Currently, they are earning faer Intimacy Coordinator and Director Certification through the SAG•AFTRA accredited Launchpad Training Program offered through Principle Intimacy Professionals.
Acacia’s Services
Testimonials
“Like having a stunt coordinator on set for stunts, I cannot imagine ever filming an intimacy scene again without an intimacy coordinator. I am a fan of Acacia’s forever and can’t wait to work together again.” – Alden Peters
“The expertise and passion that Acacia brought to the project enabled us to take what was on the page and make it even sexier.” – Amanda Jane Stern
“The communication and the detail was impeccable. I would always request an intimacy coordinator for any intimate scenes I may have to do in the future.” – Mimi Perez
“From the first-day on-set, it became crystal clear that although it was the actors who would be performing scenes […] Acacia’s priority was for every single person behind the scenes to feel safe too.” – Carla Posada
“Acacia’s awareness of and ability to add dynamics and an arc to an intimacy scene and guide actors in the rehearsal room to that end is what made me, as a director, look forward to having them on set.” – Molly Chiffer
“Acacia is deeply knowledgeable and sincerely committed to harm reduction in our industry.” – Kristina Valentine
Featured in PinkNews, Movie Makers Magazine, The UK Daily News, Film Inquiry, Cinema Femme, Broadway World, and more!
Films
Perfectly Good Moment
Plot: Ruby and David have been on-and-off for 8 years. Six months after Ruby last ran out on him, she has returned. But Ruby has more in store than just a reunion.
A new independent film from director Lauren Greenhall, writer Amanda Jane Stern, featuring Broadway’s Stephen Carlile.
“Because we spent so much time working with Acacia, pages that were sexy in the script became ten times even more erotic on the screen. I’d even go so far as to say that the intimate scenes became some of the easiest ones to film because we fostered such an open environment. They were even fun.”
AMANDA JANE STERN
– LET’S GET INTIMATE
PROVOKR’S AMANDA JANE STERN FILMS SEX SCENES
Awards
Special Mention Best Foreign Feature at the Unrestricted View Film Festival
Best Drama Actor and Best Cinematography at the West Sound Film Festival
Joseph B McNamer Foundation Best Use of Music Award at the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
As You Are
Plot: An interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, and confronts their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.
Awards
Grand Jury Prize U.S. Narrative Short Special Mention at Outfest
New Talent Award at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth
Colin Higgins Youth Grant at Frameline47 Film Festival
Best of Festival at Superfest Disability Film Festival
Best Drama at the Yale Student Film Festival
ACADEMY AWARD®-QUALIFYING selection of CineYouth and the Chicago International Film Festival
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