Julia Effertz

"Intimacy is a craft."

I am an Intimacy Coordinator, trained and certified through the American Intimacy Professionals Association (IPA).

In 2019, as Germany's first trained Intimacy Coordinator, I brought this new profession to Germany and established professional practice and best practice in intimacy work here. Since the beginning of 2020, I have been coordinating the full range of productions for film, television, streaming providers and theaters, speaking about the work, raising awareness and educating our industry on best practice when working with intimate content. I am certified to current international standards and meet the SAG-Aftra requirements for trained intimacy coordinators*.

From 2019 to 2020, I underwent Level 1+2 training with British pioneer Ita O'Brien ("Sex Education", "Normal People"). In 2021, I completed my training with Amanda Blumenthal ("Euphoria", "The L Word"), and have been certified as an Intimacy Coordinator through the IPA since July 2021.

I am an experienced industry practitioner and a passionate storyteller - some will know my work as an actor through German and international film and television. To learn more about my work as an actress, feel free to visit my actor website at www.juliaeffertz.com.

After my acting training in Paris, Oxford and London, I worked in theater in England and moved to Berlin in 2012, where I focus on acting for German and international film and TV productions. As a screenwriter, I have been nominated for the Funny Women Awards London and the Tallin TV Scriptpool, among others. Movement-wise, I am at home in dance and martial arts and love to incorporate my movement expertise into intimacy work.

An important part of my job is education and working with the next generation of filmmakers. I speak regularly at industry panels, train creative professionals and production companies, and teach directing, acting, screenwriting, and producing at universities.