{"id":4565,"date":"2014-10-09T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:47:29","slug":"augsburg-college-community-celebrates-alumnas-film-debut-kuoth-wiel-13-visits-twin-cities-advance-screening-good-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/09\/augsburg-college-community-celebrates-alumnas-film-debut-kuoth-wiel-13-visits-twin-cities-advance-screening-good-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg College community celebrates alumna\u2019s film debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4570\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/GoodLie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4570 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/GoodLie-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"GoodLie\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/GoodLie-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/10\/GoodLie.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Kuoth Wiel \u201913 visits Twin Cities for advance screening of \u2018The Good Lie\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Augsburg alumna <strong>Kuoth Wiel \u201913<\/strong> finished the final semester of her undergraduate education from afar, trading the College\u2019s Minneapolis campus for film sets in Georgia and South Africa. Wiel is featured in a supporting role in \u201cThe Good Lie,\u201d a drama about refugees from Sudan learning to navigate life in the United States with the help of a character played by Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon.<\/p>\n<p>Wiel, a psychology major with Sudanese heritage, has been touring to promote \u201cThe Good Lie\u201d since the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in early September. She will introduce the Twin Cities\u2019 first screening of \u201cThe Good Lie\u201d on October 14, and the Augsburg College community has been invited to take part in the event. Auggies also can acquire free tickets to an advance screening on October 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ticket information is posted in the October 10\u00a0edition of Augsburg\u2019s Daily A-mail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the film, visit thegoodliemovie.com\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuoth Wiel \u201913 visits Twin Cities for advance screening of \u2018The Good Lie\u2019 Augsburg alumna Kuoth Wiel \u201913 finished the final semester of her undergraduate education from afar, trading the College\u2019s Minneapolis campus for film sets in Georgia and South Africa. Wiel is featured in a supporting role in \u201cThe Good Lie,\u201d a drama about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[849,1051,3636,3370,2361,3644,3637,3371],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","tag-diversity","tag-film","tag-inclusion","tag-kuoth-wiel","tag-psychology","tag-reese-witherspoon","tag-sudan","tag-the-good-lie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12002,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/12002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}