Lissa Carandang-Sweeney
- Acting
Biography
Lissa Carandang-Sweeney is a mixed Filipino-American actor, producer, and costume designer based in New York City and raised in the greater Philadelphia region. Her debut as both lead actor and producer on the feature film Alice-Heart deepened her commitment to both disciplines, earning her Slamdance Film Festival’s 2025 Outstanding Acting Award, while the film received the festival’s Narrative Feature Grand Jury Honorable Mention.
Known for
Filmography
- Please, Smile · Luna
- I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn · TJ
- Hazy, Hot & Stupid · Producer, Costume Designer
- Alice-Heart · Alice-Heart, Producer
- Crescendo In · Claire
- Practice Space · Neighbor, Production Assistant
- We Are the Vessels of Each Other’s Melancholies
- Scratch-Off · Nurse, Wardrobe Coordinator
- First Time · Production Design, Costume Design
- Long Beach Island · Alice, Editing
- Fiber Optics · Marlene
- We Are Living Things · Karaoke Girl
- Super Hot · Monica
- Total Immersion · Emily
- Buckets of Fun · Susan, Producer
- Between Rivers · Sam
- Untitled Dan Perlman Project
- Always Nothing Much · Costume Design, Associate Producer
- The Falls · Costume Designer