After two earlier feature films collaborations, Father’s Day and Manborg, Matthew Kennedy and Adam Brooks brought their breakout creeper The Editor to the Toronto International Film Festival with one goal in mind.

“We’re looking for however many new fans we need to get paid to make films, rather than keep doing our day jobs,” Brooks told Playback Daily after their feature-length parody of the gory Italian giallo thrillers of Mario Bava and Dario Argento had its world premiere in Toronto Thursday night.

Kennedy and Brooks star in The Editor, which they co-wrote with Conor Sweeney, also who plays a knife-wielding actor in the Naked Gun-style genre pic about a one-handed master film editor toiling in the cinematic sweatshops of 1970s Italy, only to become the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.

“[The Editor] is more accessible than Father’s Day,” said Kennedy, who along with Brooks is part of the Winnipeg film collective Astron-6.

Brooks is hoping the film, which screened as part of the Midnight Madness sidebar in Toronto, will be accessible enough to help pay off his credit card after it was used to help finance The Editor.

That payday may come after an upcoming festival circuit run for the Canadian movie, to include screenings at the Vancouver, Calgary and Chicago film festivals, Fantastic Fest and Celluloid Screams in the U.K.

That festival push follows the good fortune of getting The Editor into Toronto.

“It’s a great position. We have a lot more people emailing us every hour,” Brooks said.

The Midnight Madness debut for The Editor Thursday night proved overwhelming for the directorial duo.

“It’s the biggest audience we’ve ever screening one of our films for,” Kennedy said, followed by a Q&A and fans talking to the two directors well into the wee hours of Friday.

“I don’t know why these people don’t have beds to sleep in,” Brooks joked.

The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Sunday.