They came, they saw, they streamed, they tweeted.

So has been the online traffic to and around CineCoup, the Vancouver-based film accelerator said that it’s down to 40 candidates as it looks to package and finance one winning film project.

After filmmakers uploaded two-minute faux trailers for possible features, or in all over 10 hours of original video, online fans flocked to the CineCoup website and related Facebook and Twitter sites to judge the entrants.

In all, CineCoup registered over 100,000 views of content on YouTube, with 80% of the traffic coming from within Canada and the rest from overseas.

The average visitor spent 5:08 minutes on the CineCoup site per-session, and visited 4.9 pages.

The CineCoup audience was evenly divided: 51% male and 49% female, and predictably skewing younger.

The top 40 round has in all 24 projects deemed thrillers, 21 with horror elements, and another 18 that include comedy.

And 28 of the projects come from Ontario, followed by 27 from British Columbia.

CineCoup will distill the top 40 projects down to a top-ten field to be optioned for development.

The winning project will receive up to $1 million in production financing and a guaranteed release via Cineplex theatres.