Mar 04, 2011 By Chris Tinkham

If you’re an 18-year old nascent film actress, and your first speaking part is in a low-budget Australian indie directed by a 19-year-old who gathered the financing by knocking on neighborhood doors, you wouldn’t expect the gig to take you to Cannes a year later or lead to Hollywood auditions. With no delusions of grandeur, Adelaide native Teresa Palmer couldn’t have dreamed of such an outcome for her film debut. But that’s what happened. More