Derek Zheng
Acting
Biography
Derek Zheng, a Florida native currently living in New York, is a filmmaker and commercial illustrator. After he finished university, where he mainly studied film production and cinema studies, he also started animating. He has made exactly one film, Sorrows.
Known For
An aimless girl in her final week of college goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from her hometown, Philadelphia, and ends up having to confront anxieties about her love life, family, and future.
Actual People
Set in Queens, the film follows a young woman who forms an attachment to a man she meets at a recreational soccer tournament. As her feelings remain unreciprocated, she experiences the emotional strain of unrequited love. The narrative draws inspiration from "The Sorrows of Young Werther."