The Canadian Film Centre Media Lab announced Wednesday that 15 projects have been shortlisted for ideaBOOST, its business and creative development lab and digital project incubator.

The 10 projects on the public-voted list are: Nanakitty Unleashed from Shawna Howson and Tessa Violet, The Matt & Leda Canada Wide Tour from Matt Gibson and Leda Muir : Youtube channel AsapSCIENCE from Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown; Rollers of the Realm (pictured) from Tony Walsh of Phantom Compass; interactive zombie apocalypse choose-your-own-adventure web series No Dead Ends from Tim Deegan;  transmedia series The Path from Smokebomb’s Jay Bennett; transmedia Canadian culture story The Tale of a Town from Lisa Marie DiLiberto and Charles Ketchabaw; call and response platform VotePad from James DesRoches and Michael Evask; digital short film fest The Buffer Film Festival from ApprenticeA Productions; and The Ghost Town Project, a transmedia doc project from Ina Fichman.

The five wildcard jury selections are digital FX project Lucid Dreaming LiveFX from Vanessa Shaver and Alison Humphrey; Ten Trees That Can Save the World from Merit Motion Pictures and Tactica Interactive; mobile music-defense game Loud on Planet X from Pop Sandbox; Your Task: Shoot Things from Aylwin Lo; and interactive kids storybook app Ramen Party.

The public jury, in the first phase of the voting process, voted 10 projects onto the shortlist via likes, tweets and boosts for the ideas.

The public voting process was part of the program’s mandate that ideas must find traction with and be engaging for a potential audience.

The wildcard celebrity jury, comprised of Christopher Dorr of Digital Dorr Consulting; Christopher Sandberg of The Company P and the Independent Production Fund’s Andra Sheffer; made their selections from the whole project gamut, regardless of their placement.

The ideaBOOST jury will select the eight final projects that will participate in the program.

The eight small teams and small-to-medium-sized businesses will receive up to $15,000 towards prototype development.

The part-time program, unveiled officially in August, will also include monthly meetings with entrepreneurial experts and development of business skills and audience engagement strategies for the chosen projects and teams behind them.