
Lissa Carandang-Sweeney
Known for: 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.
Known for

Please, Smile
2025

Long Beach Island
2022

Fiber Optics
2022
We Are the Vessels of Each Other’s Melancholies
2024

Alice-Heart
2025

Crescendo In
2024

Between Rivers

Total Immersion
2021

Buckets of Fun

Super Hot
2021

Practice Space
2024

I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn
2025

Scratch-Off
2023

We Are Living Things
2021
Untitled Dan Perlman Project