Background
Zheng was born in Jakarta on April 5, 1995.
Zheng was born in Jakarta on April 5, 1995.
While attending the Western Academy of Beijing, Zheng began creating his own films and documentaries, co-founding and building an educational outreach service group for poorly funded rural Chinese schools, and shooting and assembling the school"s special event coverage for the Academy"s Film department. At the academy, Zheng also began making documentaries focusing on another one of his passions: for children of poor and migrant workers. He wrote and directed a documentary about the Book-a-Book Foundation, a group he co-founded composed of high school students who raised money to create a mobile library service for under-developed migrant schools around Beijing.
Zheng also shot a documentary about Children’s Hope Foundation, which serves Beijing’s most impoverished schools, and the Hearts 4 Arts Foundation about high school students who provides arts education to migrant students.
Zheng currently studies Radio, television and Film Production at the University of Texas-Austin.
Zheng"s next competition will be the National championships in Medan, Indonesia in October 2014.