Lay Down Your Heart

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Lay Down Your Heart
Directed by Marie Clements
Written byMarie Clements
Niall McNeil
Produced byShirley Vercruysse
StarringNiall McNeil
CinematographyMike McKinlay
Edited bySarah Hedar
Music by Wayne Lavallee
Production
company
Release date
  • October 6, 2022 (2022-10-06)(VIFF)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Lay Down Your Heart is a 2022 Canadian documentary film, directed by Marie Clements. [1] The film is a portrait of Niall McNeil, a Vancouver-based theatre performer and writer with Down syndrome. [2]

The film premiered on October 6, 2022, at the Vancouver International Film Festival, where it was named the winner of the Audience Award for the Portraits program. [3]

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