The 29th Festival de Málaga, organised by Malaga City Council through Malaga Procultura, hosted a round table discussion on Friday 13 March at the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, entitled Actuar la intimidad. Cómo se construyen hoy las escenas íntimas en el cine (Performing Intimacy. How intimate scenes are constructed in cinema today), organised by the Andalusian Film Academy. The meeting focused on the processes, protocols and methodologies currently involved in the creation and filming of intimate scenes in the audiovisual field.

The session was moderated by the actress, director and dubbing actress Mercedes Hoyos, and presented by the president of the Andalusian Film Academy, Marta Velasco. It reflected on the need to create safe environments for performers in particularly sensitive scenes, as well as on the incorporation of new professional tools in the casting, pre-production and filming processes.

Rosa Estévez, the president of the Professional Association of Casting Directors (APDICE), presented the new privacy protocol for auditions, a document that details how this type of scene should be approached in casting sessions to take care of the actors and create a safe space for them. Estévez stressed that scenes of intimacy are not only those that involve an intimate act, but also those in which there is "affective violence, childbirth, gynaecological scenes, and so on".

The importance of privacy coordination in the audiovisual sector was also discussed during the round table. Maitane San Nicolás, vice-president of AESCI (Spanish Association of Intimacy Coordination Professionals), explained the value of this professional figure and the new working methodologies in this type of sequences. In the same vein, director Ramón Salazar shared his experience in filming intimate scenes, highlighting the improvement that the incorporation of these profiles entails in terms of safety and comfort for the performers.

Privacy coordination and protocols offer a new look at safer filmmaking for performers, focused on preventing abusive power dynamics of any kind, and based on the pillars of consent. It is a procedure that the actress Helena Kaittani defined as fundamental while narrating the experience she had in the shooting of the film Domino, where she appeared fully nude for the first time "It was a new experience for me and the director was very interested in talking to me about it before shooting it. He told me absolutely everything, from where the camera was going to be, the light, and that he wanted to deal with it in an intimate and elegant way with a small team. I was very grateful for that; I felt comfortable," she added.