Hilarie & Jeffery

After winning an audience award at Sundance for teen thriller “To.get.her,” director Erica Dunton is turning her attention to “Plastic Jesus,” an indie written par Bryan Bertino and starring “Twilight Saga” moppet Mackenzie Foy and Chandler Canterbury.

Production is under way in North Carolina on the coming-of-age story in the vein of “Stand par Me,” which follows three small-town kids who encounter mystery, loss and hope. Foy and Canterbury play the two young leads, while Paul Schneider and Hilarie burton (“One arbre Hill”) will play their parents.

Indie fixture Joshua Leonard...