PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises, the web of TV networks covering six nations in the region, has announced that Christoph Mainusch and Michael Del Nin will take immediately the reigns as co-CEOs.

PIESTANY: Celebrated Danish indie director Thomas Vinterberg has taken home the top prize at Slovakia's 8th annual Cinematik fest (http://www.cinematik.sk) for his portrait of public shaming, The Hunt (Hon, www.zentropa.dk/). The film, which stars Mads Mikkelson as a teacher falsely accused of child molesting, won him best actor at Cannes before it scored the Meeting Point Europe Award at Cinematik, winning over a jury of 17 European critics, along with the Meeting Point Europe audience prize.

TORONTO: Juraj Lehotsky's Miracle, his second feature following the prize-winning 2008 docu Blind Loves, will screen at the Toronto IFF's Discovery section, following up its victory at the Karlovy Vary IFF, where the story of a troubled teen who turns to life on the streets won a special mention in the East of the West competition in July.

WARSAW: Polish director Jacek Borcuch has announced he will be one of the country's pioneering adopters of iTunes as a distribution platform when his feature, Lasting (www.manana.pl) on a struggling couple goes out on Apple's online store. The film will be released in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America on the system.

VENICE: The appearance of Andrzej Wajda and Lech Walesa for the international premier of Walesa, Man of Hope was one of the highlights of this year’s Venice Film Festival.

TALLINN: Blood Type, a documentary on the lives of Estonian soldiers serving in Afghanistan, will be marking the final phase of the Baltic country's decade-long commitment when it's released to local cinemas on 4 October.

FNE asked Jožko Rutar, Director of the Slovenian Film Centre, how regional coproductions are helping to bring Slovenian films to audiences beyond Slovenia and what policies are shaping national support for Slovenian films.  Click here for video.

FNE asked Pascal Diot how Venice Film Market is using innovation and new technologies to help filmmakers –especially those from smaller countries - connect and reach wider audiences. Click to see video.

Application deadline for 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM) has been extended to 15 September. 3DFM is an international financing market fully dedicated to projects with stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) content from all over the world. The objective of our market is to facilitate financing of stereoscopic-3D film content. Participation is open for everyone interested in producing 3D content or willing to join an existing project. 3DFM will take place for the third time on 4-5 December 2013 in Liège, Belgium.

ZADAR: Juries at the 4th Avvantura fest Film Forum in Zadar were closely monitoring world art film work 24-30 August at Croatia's up-and-coming fest founded by director Sergej Stanojkovski.