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The Intimacy Coordinator
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
Raising funds for a short film about an intimacy coordinator hiding a dangerous secret, her struggle with addiction.
Synopsis:
Kate is a highly respected and experienced intimacy coordinator with a secret she can no longer keep buried. Behind her calm professionalism and careful boundary setting lies a growing compulsion that threatens to unravel everything she’s built. Though she attends recovery meetings and tries to stay in control, her private struggles are intensifying. On set, it’s becoming harder to separate her personal conflicts from her professional duties, and one actor begins to sense that something isn’t right. Her focus falters. Her judgment blurs. As her world starts to crumble, Kate must face the truth about herself before her secret destroys both her career and her relationships. The Intimacy Coordinator is a cautionary tale about the conflict between personal vulnerability and professional responsibility, exploring how unaddressed inner turmoil can quietly consume a life and those it touches.
Variety Article: www.variety.com/2025/film/global/louisa-connolly-burnham-kieron-moore-intimacy-coordinator-1236423286
Cast:
- Louisa Connolly-Burnham as Kate (Film4’s Sister Wives, BBC’s Call The Midwife)
- Kieron Moore as Max (ITV’s Code of Silence, Blue Film)
- Sophie Simnett as Ella (Netflix’s Daybreak, Sky’s Twist)
- Alexander Arnold as Nigel (C4’s Skins, Universal’s Yesterday)
- David Mumeni as Chris (Netflix’s Bridgerton, C4’s Big Mood)
- Toby Williams as Roger (Netflix’s Sex Education, Amazon’s Vanity Fair)
- Mitchell Mullen as Giles (Working Title's About Time, Filth)
Director's Statement:
This story explores themes of power, vulnerability, and control, focusing on the importance of maintaining professional and personal boundaries. At its core, Kate’s journey reflects a universal longing for connection, and how blurred lines between work and emotion can lead to self-destruction. The film set serves as a mirror to Kate’s internal world: a space of structure and supervision that contrasts sharply with her growing sense of chaos and loss of control in private.
Kate is a layered and conflicted character, both warm and guarded, empathetic yet flawed. Her relationship with Max challenges her understanding of trust, professionalism, and responsibility, forcing her to confront the impact of her choices. Through her experience, the story examines how emotional dependency and a lack of boundaries can distort even the most well-intentioned relationships.
From a directorial perspective, the film balances intimacy with restraint. The camera stays close to Kate, capturing her shifting emotions, moments of strength, self-doubt, and quiet collapse. A cool, muted colour palette underscores the emptiness beneath her controlled exterior, highlighting the gap between connection and isolation.
Ultimately, The Intimacy Coordinator invites reflection on the fine line between care and control, professionalism and personal struggle, and asks whether redemption is possible once those lines are crossed.
Writer/Director/Producer/Lead Actress:
Louisa Connolly-Burnham is an award-winning writer-director-actress from Birmingham and founder of Thimble Films. A bold new voice in British cinema, she is celebrated for emotionally charged, darkly sensual, female-led storytelling, as well as her compelling presence both behind and in front of the camera.
In 2024, Louisa wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the breakout short film Sister Wives, alongside BAFTA-winner Mia McKenna Bruce (MUBI's How To Have Sex). The short was long-listed for the 2025 Oscars and BAFTAs, acquired by Film4, ranked #3 in Letterboxd’s global “Year in Review,” and won over 30 awards across 100+ international festivals, including Best LGBTQIA+ Film at HollyShorts.
Building on the success of the short, Louisa is currently developing her debut feature, Sister Wives, now entering an exciting stage of development with an incredible team attached. BAFTA-winner Mia McKenna-Bruce will star, alongside executive producer Liz Destro (Longlegs, The Monkey). The Coppola family’s American Zoetrope (Priscilla, Lost in Translation, Apocalypse Now) joins as US producing partner, with Emily Everdee of Everdee Media leading in the UK. Acclaimed composer Clint Mansell (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Love Lies Bleeding) is on board, with casting led by Katy Covell and Ollie Gilbert.
Louisa’s previous shorts have also earned international acclaim. Her directorial debut, The Call Centre, received nominations at Oscar-qualifying Foyle Film Festival and BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica and Underwire, alongside Audience Awards at ÉCU and Sunday Shorts. Her subsequent films, including The Track, The Ceiling, and Fleeting, have screened at prestigious Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals, winning awards for directing and continuing to explore bold, socially relevant themes. Building on this momentum, Louisa is now developing four new shorts: The Intimacy Coordinator, Scratching Post, Full Fat, and VAG.
A passionate advocate for underrepresented voices in film, Louisa founded KULTY, a safe and inclusive space for women, non-binary, and gender-queer filmmakers. She is a member of Directors UK, WFTV, and Cinesisters, and has been awarded a BFI scholarship to the Female Film Club. She has served as a juror for the BAFTA x Rocliffe New Writing Competition, and currently sits on the juries of Raindance Film Festival, Sunrise Film Festival, and Stamford International Film Festival.
Her work has been featured in Variety, BBC News, Glamour, Collider, Deadline, Film Stories, British Cinematographer, Attitude, Diva, Pink News, Yahoo, Awards Daily, and more.
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Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made