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 currently working as a Story Editor on Season 4 of THE ROOKIE. After earning her BFA from USC for Writing for Screen & Television, Zoe won the HUMANITAS Originals Prize for her drama pilot at the 2019 Austin Film Festival and was accepted into the 2020 Walt Disney Television Writing Program. Raised in Cincinnati, Zoe spent her childhood unsure of what to make of her Taiwanese heritage, one seemingly at odds with the community around her. To this day, she writes about outsiders with fractured identities: people struggling against the world’s ideas of who they are.