On 8 May a contract was concretely signed at APD. Jan Bonath (Scopas Medien AG, Germany) and Mark Mertens (Grid Animation, Belgium) signed a coproduction agreement for the project “Marnie’s World”. Jan Bonath said: “We’re really delighted to have signed this contract at APD. We began the negotiations here last year and now the financing is complete and the project is going into production.” Mark Mertens added: “It could never have happened so quickly without APD.”