Cintima — the SAG-AFTRA-accredited intimacy coordinator coaching group — is mounting an inaugural brief movie pageant that includes works that discover “the complexity and artistry surrounding intimacy on movie” in three minutes or much less.

The one-night occasion, dubbed Flicker Festival, will unspool inside Culver Metropolis’s Culver Theater on Oct. 16. Submissions are now open for the tasks, which may take any type from narrative and nonfiction to animation. Per the group, the time constraints of completed works below three minutes are in place to “showcase that even the smallest ‘flicker’ of time can uncover depths of emotion and depictions of intimacy.” Deadline for submissions is Sept. 15, and works might be chosen by Sept. 22.

Cintima has corralled a gaggle of creatives to serve on Flicker Festival’s first annual jury, together with Oscar nominated star Danielle Deadwyler, producer and director Miranda Bailey, filmmaker Amanda Kramer, producer Seth Caplan, actor Clark Moore, intimacy coordinator Alicia Rodis, filmmaker Almog Avidan Antonir, actor Chris Chalk, producer Jiarui Guo, filmmaker Roxy Sorkin and filmmaker Leila Djansi. 

Along with screening picks, Flicker Festival will display screen scenes from John Cameron Mitchell’s express movie Shortbus in addition to different notable movies with intimate scenes. The jury might be charged with presenting awards for finest brief, finest actor, finest intimacy, finest use of digital/synthetic intelligence and different awards.

Cintima has labored with such firms as HBO, Netflix, AppleTV+, Showtime, Paramount+, CBS, Amazon, Sony and others on such titles as The Righteous Gems, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Westworld, The Afterparty, I Need Your Intercourse, Spider-Man: Noir, American Gigolo and Insurgent Moon.