Lissa Carandang-Sweeney
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.
Please, Smile
(Luna)
Long Beach Island
(Alice)
Fiber Optics
(Marlene)
Scratch-Off
(Nurse)
Practice Space
(Neighbor)
Super Hot
(Monica)
We Are Living Things
(Karaoke Girl)
We Are the Vessels of Each Other’s Melancholies
Alice-Heart
(Alice-Heart)
Crescendo In
(Claire)
Total Immersion
(Emily)
I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn
(TJ)
Buckets of Fun
(Susan)
Between Rivers
(Sam)
Untitled Dan Perlman Project
Hazy, Hot & Stupid
(Producer)
First Time
(Production Design)
Long Beach Island
(Writer)
Long Beach Island
(Editor)
Scratch-Off
(Wardrobe Coordinator)
Practice Space
(Production Assistant)
Alice-Heart
(Producer)
Alice-Heart
(Costume Designer)
Alice-Heart
(Story Consultant)
Hazy, Hot & Stupid
(Costume Designer)
First Time
(Costume Design)
Buckets of Fun
(Producer)
Always Nothing Much
(Costume Design)
The Falls
(Costume Designer)