Person

Lissa Carandang-Sweeney

Acting

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.

• The Falls

  Costume Designer

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  Between Rivers

  Sam

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  Crescendo In

  Claire

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  Scratch-Off

  Nurse

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  Alice-Heart

  Alice-Heart

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  First Time

  Production Design

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  Please, Smile

  Luna

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  Total Immersion

  Emily

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  Fiber Optics

  Marlene

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  Buckets of Fun

  Susan

• 2025Please, SmileLuna
• 2025I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in BrooklynTJ
• 2025Hazy, Hot & StupidProducer
• 2025Alice-HeartAlice-Heart
• 2024Crescendo InClaire
• 2024Practice SpaceNeighbor
• 2024We Are the Vessels of Each Other’s Melancholies
• 2023Scratch-OffNurse
• 2023First TimeProduction Design
• 2022Long Beach IslandAlice
• 2022Fiber OpticsMarlene
• 2021We Are Living ThingsKaraoke Girl
• 2021Super HotMonica
• 2021Total ImmersionEmily
• —Buckets of FunSusan
• —Between RiversSam
• —Untitled Dan Perlman Project
• —Always Nothing MuchCostume Design
• —The FallsCostume Designer