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Director & Storyteller | Ocean Advocate | Good Eater
Link to order Kimi’s Kitchen: An Ocean Woman’s Guide to Wild Home Cooking 👇

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✨ After 2.5 years in the making… our book, Kimi’s Kitchen: An Ocean Woman’s Guide to Wild Home Cooking is DONE and officially available for preorder! Release date: March 10.

I’m so proud of this cover. I shot it a couple years back on a dive with Kimi and @captainpotter and called it “Grocery Run.” Nothing staged, nothing planned. Just Kimi being her authentic, powerful, feminine self underwater. At the time I never imagined it would one day land on the cover of the book but I’m so happy it did.

We went through dozens of cover options (and yes, at one point were told “no dead fish” we don’t want to scare potential buyers). From portraits to cooking on the beach, all beautiful… but in the end, our incredible team at @tenspeedpress encouraged us to trust ourselves. To choose the raw, real image of Kimi doing what she does best diving underwater. A reminder: don’t try to fit the mold and stay true to who you are.

To me this image represents joy, nourishment, and connection to nature not a trophy, but a way of feeding yourself and your family with intention. I love that it’s a humble fish and a simple three prong.

Working on this book has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life, to learn, eat, celebrate, write, talk, shoot, and share the version of Kimi I’ve been lucky enough to know. It’s a deeply personal biography, lessons on sustainability, and a collection of recipes from all different parts of her life. I can’t wait for you to hold it in your hands and to try her food.

Thank you so much for all the love and support!Preordering helps us secure budget for a book tour which I’m hoping means we get to travel and celebrate in person. Sharing a few favorite images here to make you drool. 🐟💙 link in bio.

PS this is my grandmas favorite song. The OG badass woman in my life that showed me how to cook and love through food.

All made possible with the best team: @kimi_swimmy @jcfiedler @cinematowski @tenspeedpress @perrinjames1 @carlyzech @tcallero @emmacampioncreative @penguinrandomhouse

Photo 4 is @perrinjames1 and one of my most favorite pictures ever. The rest are collabs between the talented @cinematowski and myself 🫰 by @gromlet

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“Sea Country is not a specific place, it is a hospital. It is our teacher. It’s that interconnection of what makes us Island people. It is life as we know it. We have been here for over 65,000 years caring and protecting our region for Millenia. Torres Strait Islander people live intrinsically with the ocean, our land and the sky. It is our responsibility to look after her so she can look after us.” - Tishiko King

Last year I had the privilege of collaborating with @patagonia and @patagoniaaus to direct their latest short film featuring the incredible Tishiko King.

Thank you @tishfish__ for sharing your story and inviting me into your world. I know it’s never easy, but you walk between two worlds with such grace and reverence. I deeply appreciate your willingness to offer such an honest, unfiltered look at why you do what you do.

Thank you, Bala Yessi and Lala Gutchen. Your knowledge and ability to read the water will stay with me forever. It was an honor to dive the reefs and even if briefly experience the power of Sea Country in Zenadth Kes.

Huge thanks to my multi-hat-wearing creative G’s, @tylerschifmann and @nainoalanger. Even when our entire plan got thrown out the window the night before you both rolled with it and brought such amazing energy and talent. @maxwellwalter - I wish you lived closer so we could collaborate more often. And to the entire post team— thank you for everything even though our schedule was 🙃

And lastly, thank you to Naima, Shanon, Jake, Monika, and Alex at Patagonia for inviting me to help tell these stories. Last time, you passed five MPAs using films we made. I can’t wait to see what you and Tish are able to accomplish this time.

A link to watch is in my bio. The film will also be premiering tomorrow evening (and Sunday) at @Mountainfilm. Sadly, I won’t be there, but some of the Patagonia crew will be repping hard!

Full credits in comments. Hope you enjoy! by @gromlet

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I am so excited to finally share that Searching for Amani, the feature length documentary that a group of talented filmmakers and I have been working on for many years, is set to have its world premiere at @tribeca on Saturday - June 8, 2024!

I never could have imagined what started as an idea to give cameras to kids living on the frontlines of climate change would lead us to the finished film we have today. We were working in the Arctic, the Pacific, the bayous of Louisiana, and then we met 12 year old Simon and his family who slowly but surely forever changed our plans and all of our lives.

Now Simon is 17 and yes, it is still a still a story about climate change but more importantly it’s a story about family, hope, friendship, and resilience. It’s a story about a boy at the center of it all who wants to be a journalist and has hopes for a better future. It’s a story about understanding and seeing the other side.

Thank you to my producing brother Peter Goetz (@backroadspictures) who jumped in before any of this was more then just a sliver of an idea & was the first to meet Simon. To Debra Aroko (@_aroko) my directing and impact partner in crime. To @campbellbrewer @rhesus_positive_ @ronnie_mugambi @cappuccino222 @paula_kahumbu091 @notorious_nip and the entire team … our cross-cultural labor of love is a testament to the power of collaboration and the potential of film to bridge divides, process grief, and foster understanding.

Most importantly thank you to the Ali family for trusting us and inviting us into your home. It’s been one of the most incredible privileges to witness the love you have for each other and an honor to help memorialize the legacy of Stephen.

More info and screenings to come but for now we are counting down the days (& doing our absolute best to get Visas approved) until we are all in NY together!

@searchingforamani #tribeca2024 by @gromlet

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Two yellows, two waves, and so many stars… kind of crazy how one day on the water can make you feel whole again.

Fun day with @brookebasse @tyschiff this weekend. Made a @kimi_swimmy-inspired nigiri board with yellowtail and her striped marlin (what a gift - thank you!). Missing photos of the collars, sashimi, lobster bisque, and freshly baked cookies that everyone threw down… but at least we got one of the Ruffles, onion dip, and caviar. High and low baby.

Feels good to be back in Cali for a bit. It’s really hit me how much I learned while I was away both above and underwater… forever grateful for the cookbook journey and friends that always kept a seat at the table open for me. Lurvvv you 💙 by @gromlet

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Zarautz on film

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Thank you manex. I love this terrace

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@jl_amaso + @janire_ + @vaeradventure 🤘

Banoa

Cigs & disco balls

Capitán

Lil Meg came to visit by @gromlet

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Got some film back from a research trip to Galicia earlier this summer and it’s making me miss Spain. Thank you @maresdafindomundo 💙 Hopefully more soon. by @gromlet

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DISPATCH: BIG ISLAND | Field notes from Ambassador Nicole Gormley

“Spread across different parts of Hawaii, we found a small weather window in the middle of a particularly windy, rainy winter and decided to dive a few of our favorite spots on Big Island.

So I was thrilled when Free Fly tapped photographers @perrinjames1, @mikeborchard, and me for a feral mission to field-test and shoot a few new pieces with one important caveat: the adventure mattered more than staging any shots.

We headed to South Point, a place I’d wanted to dive for a long time because of that out-there feeling.

That moment when you finally settle into an adventure is one of the best feelings in the world. You forget about everything else. And because things can go wrong out there, and you’re so remote, you have to be present.

Some trips give you content. Some give you yourself back. This one did a little bit of both.

Till the next feral mission,
Nicole”

Read more at the link in our bio.

📸: @mikeborchard
#freeflyapparel #livefreefly by @gromlet

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2 months ago

Lately with the Banoa vascos ♥️

Eskerrik asko @sorazu @jl_amaso @i.mpau and da whole crew … Thank you for sharing your world with me. Even though Hawaiʻi and California are far away, you’ve made basque country feel like home.

📷 @sorazu by @gromlet

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Moments from a fun couple days with the @freeflyapparel team earlier this year for their Wild Comfort Campaign taken in Oahu, Hawaii by @gromlet

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Quick photo dump from our time in Baja.

@rachaeltilly @emi_erickson @gromlet @instaclamfunk — run it back?

#freeflyapparel #livefreefly by @gromlet

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Today, our cross-cultural labor of love, Searching for Amani, was nominated for a 2026 News and Documentary Emmy!!

So grateful for everyone who helped bring this story to life!

Watch it on PBS World @worldchannel @ajwitness
@aljazeeraenglish by @gromlet

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Special announcement

Thank you all so much for the love and support on the book tour so far. We are adding a last-minute signing and celebration at VAER Watches in Venice this Sunday, March 22 | 4–6 PM. No need tix or RSVP!

We’ll have books and watches available for sale, will be signing, and offering complimentary @juneshine.

All net proceeds from the event will go toward flood relief efforts supporting our community in Waialua.

We will be announcing more book stops coming soon. Mahalo for all the love and support. Hawaiii, you are in our hearts.

Address:
1733 Abbot Kinney Blvd #B
Venice, CA 90291 by @gromlet

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