Barry Shils

Movies

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
Editor
A documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
Producer
A documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
Director
A documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.
Wigstock: The Movie
Director
The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this colorful documentary. The film concentrates on the spectacle of the event, providing abundant examples of the elaborate costumes, flamboyant wigs, and campy musical performances that characterize the event.
Motorama
Director
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
Vampire's Kiss
Producer
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
A Return to Salem's Lot
Associate Producer
Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they ask Joe to write a bible for them.
The Stuff
Associate Producer
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Special Effects
Associate Producer
After murdering a young would-be actress, megalomaniacal movie director Chris Neville sets about making a feature based on the murder, casting the dead woman's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the part of the dead actress.
Perfect Strangers
Associate Producer
A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.