By all accounts, Louis B. Dematteis was a man’s man. He served in World War II as part of the Greatest Generation. Later, he made his reputation as a crusading district attorney in San Mateo County, leading midnight raids on gambling houses and prostitution rings, and battling organized crime and corruption in the 1940s and ’50s.
So how could his son, Louis F. Dematteis, possibly measure up? As the younger Dematteis’ documentary, “Crimebuster: A Son’s Search for His Father,” shows, for a long time he didn’t – at least, in his father’s eyes. “Living with my dad was like living with a judge when court was in session,” Dematteis says.
Sitting at a cafe near his home in the Mission District recently, Dematteis (pronounced dim-a-TAY-us, and you can call him Lou) looks like a man comfortable in his own skin – as well he should be; he’s an accomplished photojournalist. Yet his first feature-length film, which premieres at this week’s California Independent …
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