Matt and Ross Duffer

Matt Duffer
Matt Duffer at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	February 1984 (age 33) United States
Other names	Duffer Brothers
Alma mater	Chapman University
Occupation	Writer, film director, producer
Years active	2011–present
Relatives	Ross Duffer (brother)

Ross Duffer
Ross Duffer at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	February 1984 (age 33) United States
Other names	Duffer Brothers
Alma mater	Chapman University
Occupation	Writer, film director, producer
Years active	2011–present
Relatives	Matt Duffer (brother)

Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (born February 1984), known professionally as the Duffer Brothers, are American identical twin brothers best known for writing and directing a number of science fiction and horror films and television shows. Perhaps their most notable work is Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things and the 2015 horror film Hidden. They have also written episodes for Wayward Pines.

The Duffer brothers were raised in Durham, North Carolina. They began making films in the third grade using a Hi8 video camera that was a gift from their parents. They attended the Duke School from grades K-8, a private suburban school, and then matriculated to the Charles E. Jordan High School, a large Durham public school. They relocated to Orange, California to study film at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, where they graduated in 2007. After writing and/or directing a number of short films, their script for the post-apocalyptic horror film, Hidden, was acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2011. The brothers directed the film in 2012, which was released in 2015. Director M. Night Shyamalan read the script and hired them as writer/producers on the Fox television series Wayward Pines.

From their experience in television, they began pitching their idea for Stranger Things, which Dan Cohen eventually brought to Shawn Levy. With Levy's 21 Laps production company on board, the show was quickly picked up by Netflix. The show is set in 1983 Indiana and is an to '80s pop culture, inspired and aesthetically informed by the works of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Stephen King, and George Lucas, among others.