`Roma` star`s unlikely road from mountains of Mexico to Hollywood
(Artdaily.org)

Yalitza Aparicio once was a newly qualified pre-school teacher living in a dusty mountain town in Mexico. Now, the 25-year-old is the star of Alfonso Cuaron`s `Roma` and an Oscar nominee -- a fairy tale marred by racist barbs the indigenous actress has encountered along the way. Aparicio -- who is part Mixtec and part Triqui -- grew up in Tlaxiaco in the southern state of Oaxaca, home to about 40,000 people. She had never even seen a movie on the big screen until she was 15 and went on a school trip to Puebla, a city some 350 kilometers (220 miles) away. Tlaxiaco closed its only movie theater years ago, explains Miguel Angel Martinez, who runs the small city`s tiny cultural center. Even then, it had only shown films that had screened everywhere else years before. The theater`s demise was hastened by the advent of pirated DVDs, a flourishing