Zoe Cheng

2020 Minority Report Fellow
University of Southern California

WHEN A FLOWER FALLS
Logline: Six months after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, the American government forces 22-year-old Eve Kasai and her family into an internment camp in California’s unforgiving Owens Valley desert. Stranded behind barbed wire between their Japanese identities and their American ones, the Kasais must learn to redefine what it means to be a family.

Zoe is a Taiwanese American writer born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. She won the Humanitas Originals Prize for her pilot at the 2019 Austin Film Festival and was subsequently accepted into the 2020 Walt Disney TV Writing Program as one of only seven drama writers. Zoe most recently wrapped as a Co-Producer on an unannounced Netflix limited drama series. She has developed projects with Annapurna TV, A+E Studios, and Killer Films. In her writing, Zoe loves to explore the theme of identity: characters working to carve out where they belong.