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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Award-winning filmmaker Stevenson J. Palfi has died in New Orleans at age 53.
Palfi was suffering severe depression after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina and died Dec. 14 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Wednesday.
The Chicago native was best known for his award-winning 1982 documentary "Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together," featuring New Orleans pianists Isidore "Tuts" Washington, Henry Roeland "Professor Longhair" Byrd and Allen Toussaint.
His work also included a 13-week series of documentaries and short films for The Learning Channel, the newspaper said.
At the time of his death, Palfi was finishing a feature-length film about Toussaint that was 15 years in the making, called "Songwriter, Unknown."
Survivors include a daughter, his father and a sister.
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