Saturday 04th October 2025
Location: Mainstage (Kilkenny Animated)
After promising his mother he’d one day make a film like The Jungle Book, Kevin Lima got his chance in the early nineties, as he set out to make his first Disney feature “a John Hughes movie, in animation.” That movie was A Goofy Movie and Lima and the team wanted it to hit different to the ‘talking animals movies’ of the day, focusing squarely on the relationship between the much-loved Goofy, and his teenage son Max. However, finding the emotional depth to sustain a film about one of Disney’s best loved slapstick comedians, Goofy, brought with it a set of production challenges the young filmmakers hadn’t anticipated. Their story is the subject of a brand new documentary, Not Just A Goof, released on Disney Plus for A Goofy Movie’s 30th anniversary. Kevin Lima will present Not Just A Goof and his story at KKA – and he’ll be sticking around to hear all burning questions. Not Just A Goof A documentary uncovering the untold story of a young creative team tackling their first Disney feature, facing disappointment upon release, only for the film to gain a passionate following decades later.
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