Hughes Brothers

The Hughes Brothers (born April 1, 1972) is the collective name for American twin brothers and film directors, producers and writers Albert and Allen Hughes. They are known for co-directing such visceral, and often violent, movies as Menace II Society and From Hell.
The Hughes Brothers were born in Detroit, Michigan to an African American father and an Armenian mother, Aida, who was born in Iran. Albert is the older of the fraternal twins by nine minutes. Their parents divorced when they were two. The twins moved with their mother to Pomona, California, east of Los Angeles, when they were nine. Aida raised her sons alone while putting herself through school and starting her own business, a vocational center. Supportive of her sons' ambitions as filmmakers, she gave them a video camera when they were twelve. As a result, the boys spent their free time making short films. When a teacher suggested that they make a "How To" film for an assignment, they complied with a short film entitled "How to Be a Burglar."
After dropping out of high school, the twins began working on music videos as teenagers, directing for artists like Tone Loc and Tupac Shakur. Their first film, 1993's Menace II