“I Am Duran” Director Mat Hodgson: “I Wanted To Push The Parameters”

By: Sean Crose
“Roberto Duran sort of came my way rather than the other way around,” says film maker Mat Hodgson, director of the new acclaimed documentary “I Am Duran,” the focus of which is famed Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran. Although he had met Duran previously, Hodgson's discussions about Panama with a friend who had Panamanian roots led to his ultimately creating a movie about that nation's most famous son. “We were talking about Duran,” he says. &ldqu