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.

In this introductory episode, Annie Spong, Katherine O'Keefe, and Rachel Lee Flesher begin to discuss what they do as Intimacy Coordinators, why they do it, and what brought them all together to start this podcast!

"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.