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As an actor taking care of your mental health is vital for a long and healthy career in an industry that is emotionally draining, financially unstable, judgemental and superficial and generally precarious. One day you're being rejected at an audition, then you're celebrating critical acclaim in the press and then suddenly images of you have been...

Is an intimacy coordinator a legal requirement? Is an intimacy coordinator part of the creative team? Does an intimacy coordinator direct or choreograph intimate scenes? Should an intimacy coordinator just monitor for safety? Does the intimacy coordinator work directly with the actors?

2021 has been quite a year for the Safe Sets Intimacy Coordination Team in South Africa! Kate Lush, Èmil Haarhoff and Sara Blecher with the assistance of Natalie Fisher and Jacki Job, have Intimacy Coordinated on TV and Film Sets in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, helping to create safer, more collaborative, sets, with actor...

Troukoors!

11/29/2021

Troukoors live on Showmax from December 13th 2021! Intimacy Coordinator Kate Lush from Safe Sets with a wonderful team, including Èmil Haarhoff and Cape Town colleagues Natalie Fisher and Jacki Job, had the opportunity to intimacy coordinate on the new Showmax original, Troukoors. The show was produced by Louis Pretorius and Albert Snyman of...

In 2021 Safe Sets teamed up with Netflix EMEA to train Intimacy Coordinators to be able to work on sets in Europe and beyond. After many months of conversations and planning, the Safe Sets team and Eugenio Villamizar from Netflix, worked together to create a training opportunity for Intimacy Coordinators who were either already working in Europe,...