Director Julie Zhu talks about finding the beauty in everyday moments in the second season of her fly-on-the-wall documentary series Takeout Kids . A boy at school has a crush on Kyla Dang. It’s unrequited, though.
She’s never actually met him and anyway, he’s only 5. “No way, Jose,” says Kyla, who’s 7. It’s all heartbreak and high drama at primary school.
The bedazzled twin bedroom she shares with her big sister, Kylee, has posters of K-pop girl band Blackpink on the wall. The sisters’ nails are bedazzled, too. Their parents, who migrated to Aotearoa from Vietnam, have owned a nail salon in Whakatāne for the past 10 years.
Director Julie Zhu spent five 10-hour days filming the family for a second season of her fly-on-the-wall documentary series Takeout Kids , which premiered this week. It’s a measure of her skill as a storyteller that the final 12-minute cut is such a satisfying watch. To be honest, I have a bit of a crush on Kyla, myself.
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