A Canfield native walked the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival Sunday as the film she produced had its world premiere.

Mary Elizabeth Monda, a 2014 Canfield High School graduate, produced “Caity,” a coming-of-age story written and directed by Lindsay Calleran.

The morning after the premiere, Monda described it as a beautiful experience. The creative team and the cast spent the day doing press and photos and had a short break before the premiere that evening.

“We got to walk the carpet together, take a lot of photos,” Monda said. “It was very fun having our friends yell our name from behind the barricade, just such a silly, fun experience for all of us, and then finally getting to share this with an audience was thrilling.

“Lindsay has had this in their head for six years, and to be able to show people who have known about this for six years and have supported you — and a lot of them haven’t seen a cut, haven’t read the script, so a lot of them have worked on the film and had no idea what they were contributing to — it was just really lovely.”

Monda decided when she was in high school that she wanted to work in film and television, and she moved to New York when she was 20.

“I thought I would be a business executive at one of these networks, and that would be really exciting, and I tried that,” she said. “I interned, and I was an assistant. It wasn’t quite right for me, and I realized I needed a more hands-on experience.”

Monda, who worked on the Netflix/Marvel series “The Punisher” and “Luke Cage” as well as the film “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” was introduced to Calleran through a mutual friend about four years ago, and they worked together on a short film.

Calleran was already developing “Caity,” the story of a family-owned haunted house attraction. When her recovering alcoholic father shows signs of a relapse, teenaged Caity tries to cover for him, which has negative effects on her well being.

“It’s a really personal story for Lindsay,” Monda said. “This story is very much a family story and a father-daughter relationship. Whenever you read a script or meet somebody who makes art that feels personal to them, you can tell how authentic it is, you can tell how important it is to them, and that’s really appealing to me.”

The film features Chiara Aurelia (who starred in the Hulu series “Cruel Summer” and on Broadway in “John Proctor Is the Villain”) as the title character along with Morgan Spector (“The Gilded Age,” “Black Rabbit,” “Homeland”) and Zach Cherry (“Severance”).

Monda originally was hired as line producer, focusing on the budget and the day-to-day demands of filming, but it evolved into a creative producer role shared with Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson.

“We already had this buildup of trust with my knowledge of production that Lindsay was like, ‘Please come and help do creative as well,'” Monda said. “It became just Lindsay, Malcolm and I really running with the show for the last six months or so. I have a background in line producing, and that is really my bread and butter — being on set, building the budget — the actual execution of these types of smaller projects is where I thrive. Creatively, it was just such an honor to be invited in to have a say in how we cast and how we develop a script and how we edit. It all started from my knowledge of production and then grew out from there when we continued to build our relationship.”

Monda isn’t the only producer in the family. Her older brother, Joey Monda, is a three-time Tony winner as a producer on the musicals “Hadestown” and “A Strange Loop” and the play “The Inheritance.”

“I’ve been very lucky to have somebody older than me kind of pave that path from the arts and succeed,” Monda said. “It’s really hard to be as successful as my brother is, so it was, I think, a bit of a relief to watch somebody do something so difficult and succeed so highly at it.”

“Caity” will screen three more times at Tribeca, and two of those screenings already are sold out. The end goal is to get the movie seen by as many people as possible. Right now it’s too early to tell whether they will pursue that goal by being picked up for theatrical distribution, playing additional film festivals or through streaming services.

“We want Lindsay’s career to grow as a filmmaker.” Monda said. “I really believe in them as a writer and director, and they have a lot more ideas. We get this out there, we get it seen, we get trust built with an audience and distributors for Lindsay as a director-writer, and we can keep going and making films together.”

Whatever happens with “Caity,” Monda will be busy. She works for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a member of his digital communications team.

“I canvassed for him,” she said. “I did go out and knocked on doors and handed out materials, and then I joined the transition team after the election for the month of December, and then that led to City Hall … I help with the mayor’s social media, with the citywide marketing, and he hosts a show called ‘Talk with the People.’ I’m a producer and showrunner on that as well for him. What you see visually (online) is a lot of what my team is producing.”