MVM NATION

🎬 RYAN COOGLER — MVM of Film
🏆 Best Original Screenplay | Sinners | 98th Academy Awards

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🎓 EDUCATION & JOURNEY
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🏈 Football scholarship → Saint Mary’s College of California, then Sacramento State
📊 BS in Finance, Sacramento State (2007) — while taking every film class available
🎓 MFA in Film, USC School of Cinematic Arts (2011)
🌟 Age 26: Fruitvale Station won Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cannes Best First Film
🦁 Directed Black Panther — the first superhero film ever nominated for Best Picture

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🎥 FOR USC FILM MAJORS IN THE A.I. ERA
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For USC film majors worried about A.I., Ryan Coogler is a reminder that tools do not replace vision, authorship, or relationships. He built work so valuable that Sinners reportedly came with a rare Warner Bros. deal that returns the film’s rights to him after 25 years.

“Ryan Coogler built early with fellow USC student Ludwig Göransson and turned that creative bond into part of his future professional crew. That is one reason Ryan has already applied many of the 40 MVM Lessons — especially MVM Lesson #17: ‘Use your matriculation to build your own MVM Team, so when you graduate you can beat the machine.’ That is the lesson for USC Film majors in the A.I. era: learn the tools, but protect your voice, build your team, and create work the machine cannot replace.”
— Professor “A”

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💬 IN HIS OWN WORDS
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“If I can get two hours of people’s time, I can affect them more than throwing a trash can through a window.”

— Ryan Coogler
Filmmaker Magazine interview
On why he chose film over activism

💡 Your major doesn’t define your destiny. Follow the subject that sets you on fire — then master it.

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FilmStudents

🎉 Happy Birthday to our Most Valuable Major (MVM) of Architecture! 🎉
Today we celebrate Jah-Meiré Shelton aka THE SHELTRIX — a visionary student architect who’s using his creativity to transform spaces and shape the future.

Currently earning his B.A. at the USC School of Architecture, Jah-Meiré brings imagination, precision, and leadership to everything he touches. From his time as an intern at Ibanez Shaw Architecture LLC to mastering tools like Rhino, 3D printing, and Adobe Creative Cloud, he’s proving that design isn’t just technical — it’s transformational.

Here’s the vow written across his back — and the blueprint of his purpose:

I will transform dreams...from behind the scenes
I will design projects...so ideas are expressed
I will draw visions...with style and precision
I will build walls...to protect us all
I will build fences...to prevent loss
I will build bridges...for us to cross
I will shape cities...every structure

Jah-Meiré is also a member of the Black Student Assembly, VP of the National Organization of Minority Students, and an emerging force in the future of architecture. He’s not just drafting plans — he’s drawing power from his passion.

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📌 P.S. The shirt he’s wearing is from our Most Valuable Major (MVM) collection — created for students and professionals who know that what they build matters. DM us if you’d like one for yourself or for a future architect who deserves to wear their major with pride.