Ground Truths

2026 Legacy Futures Award Winner

Mimi Ọnụọha
New York, USA

After learning that 95 bodies had been discovered in a mass grave minutes from where she grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, Mimi Ọnụọha spent four years developing a machine-learning model to identify where other convict-leasing graves might remain hidden. The resulting docufiction film turns that process into a powerful meditation on historical erasure and the systems we rely on to understand the past.