Terrence Malick, born in 1943, is an American director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as part of the New Hollywood filmmaking wave with the film Badlands (1973) after which followed Days of Heaven (1978), before a long hiatus. He returned to filmmaking with films such as The Thin Red Line (1998), The New Word (2005) and The Tree of Life (2011), having been awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival and the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.