Romancing The Screen

Rachel, Katherine, and Annie all sit down to expand upon some of the film production terms they've used in past episodes... and will definitely use in future episodes too!

Never been on a film set before? Need a refresher? Want an Intimacy Coordinator's perspective on how a set works? This episode is for you.

You can find us @RomancingTheScreenPod, and email us at [email protected].

Thank you for listening!

We're delighted to talk with actress Louis Barnes!

Louise has worked on many sets and has participated in numerous intimate scenes, with the majority of her work having been done without an Intimacy Coordinator. Katherine and Annie talk with Louise about the impacts of not having an IC on set, how one could have been beneficial on those sets, and the future of Intimacy coordination according to Louise.

Louise is a South African actress, best known for her work in the film Surviving Evil and the Starz TV series Black Sails.

Black Sails is on Netflix starting April 17!

You can find us @RomancingTheScreenPod, and email us at [email protected].

Our first pair of guests are Producers, Directors, and accomplished Filmmakers Richard & and Amy Janes!

Annie and Katherine talk to Amy and Richard about how their filmmaking process has changed over the years with the advent of Intimacy Coordinators. The conversation touches on topics like Richard dealing with an inappropriate costume designer as a young man, Amy navigating intimacy with actors before IC's, and how Intimacy Coordinators can help with triggering and emotional scenes, even when the crew themselves are affected.

Richard and Amy Janes are a dynamic husband-and-wife duo making waves in Oklahoma's rapidly growing film and television industry. Amy, an Emmy and Clio-winning producer/editor, is celebrated for her work on documentaries and feature films, including projects like "As Seen Through These Eyes" narrated by Dr. Maya Angelou, as well as HBO's "Crossfire Hurricane" and "Valentine Road." She runs the Oklahoma Film and Television Academy/Film Crew Institute, co-owns Filmmakers Ranch in Oklahoma, and serves as Executive Producer at Fanology in LA, crafting engaging digital content. Richard, an accomplished director, boasts over 100 commercials for major brands and an Emmy for "Behind The Lyrics." He was cast in a variety of different roles as a young actor in the UK before transitioning into directing - leading him to Los Angeles where he met Amy. They quickly realized they both shared a vision of a self-sustaining filmmaking community. Together, they revitalized an abandoned school in Oklahoma City into Green Pastures Studio, a thriving film campus. Committed to diversity, they also launched the Film Crew Institute, a below-the-line training school that seeks to redress the diversity imbalance of our crew base so that it can more accurately reflect the global audiences of the industry.

You can find Amy, Richard, and all of their projects on their two websites, FilmmakersRanch.com and FilmCrewInstitute.com. They're also on Facebook and Instagram @FilmmakersRanch and @FilmCrewInstitute.

You can find us at @RomancingTheScreenPod, RomancingTheScreen.com, and you can email us at [email protected].

Rachel and Annie discuss the path to becoming an IC... and if there's even a path in the first place! They also teach producer Adam about the differences between Intimacy Coordinator, Intimacy Consultant, and Intimacy Director.

You can find us @RomancingTheScreenPod, or email us your questions at [email protected]!

We're so happy to welcome Director Jann Turner to the podcast today!

Katherine and Annie talk with Jann about her career, how Intimacy Coordinators can improve the production process, and what directing intimate scenes was like before ICs.

Jann has extensive experience directing movies and television, having directed episodes of Jack Ryan, Grace and Frankie, Scandal, Chicago Fire, Jane the Virgin, Netflix's Virgin River, How To Get Away With Murder, and Grey's Anatomy, to name a few.

You can find her at @JannTurner.Director, and JannTurner.net. You can find us at @RomacningTheScreenPod, RomancingTheScreen.com, and you can email us at [email protected].

Today, we're so excited to welcome director Brenna Malloy onto the podcast!

Annie, Katherine, and Brenna discuss how intimacy coordination is approached from the director's perspective, and how an Intimacy Coordinator can help make a director's life easier...even if they ask the same questions to the talent.

Brenna has directed episodes of shows like Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, FBI, 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Law & Order: Organized Crime, as well as numerous short films! You can find her @gobrennago, and us @RomancingtheScreenPod.

Rachel and Annie get into more of our listener-submitted questions. We would love to hear from you! Find us @RomancingTheScreenPod, or email us @[email protected]! Tune in next week for our first interview.

Annie and Katherine discuss a few of the questions we've received in the past few weeks since starting the podcast. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please write to [email protected], or find us on social media @RomancingTheScreenPod!

When exactly is an intimacy coordinator brought on in the production process? When should they be brought onto a project? During casting? The day before filming? The day of?

This week, Annie, Katherine, and Rachel discuss the answers to these questions and share experiences when they probably should have been brought onto set a little bit earlier than they actually were. As always, the conversation leads us back to the question "What is intimacy?"

In this episode, we discuss gender and body parts. In the entertainment industry, many of the legal departments still use very binary language - male or female being their only two options - in their definition of body parts when deciding what qualifies as nudity. Hence in the podcast when we reference “male chests” our meaning is male in the legal sense as used by entertainment law. 

We at Romancing the Screen do not want to perpetuate the harmful myth that gender is binary or attributed to a singular factor. Gender is multifaceted. Biological sex, gender expression, and gender identity do not have to align in any way. People know who they are. Hear what they say. Believe them. 

We will continue to try to make the entertainment industry a safer place for people of all genders by encouraging legal departments to be inclusive of all genders.

"Your yes means nothing if you cannot say no." - Meshell Ndegeocello

~

Katherine, Rachel, and Annie start to delve into what happens when an intimacy coordinator is on set, and when they're not. "Don't they just get in the way? Aren't intimacy coordinators the sex police?" These are a few of the misconceptions that the team begins to tackle in this week's episode, along with some of the challenges faced by IC's while on the job.