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Agnes Peel-McGregor (A.A. Bagins) is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. Shaped by her Polish roots and the raw landscapes of New Zealand, her work explores the human body in relation to ecology, social pressure, and systems of power through cinema.

 

Legendary filmmaker David Lynch personally awarded her a full scholarship to his Master of Fine Arts program, where she further developed her intuitive, subconscious approach to image-making.

 

Her work across directing, writing, editing, and producing has received international recognition from professional guilds and Academy-accredited festivals. 

Her short Last Tree Standing premiered at Sitges Film Festival — the same festival that helped launch early works by genre filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro, Robert Eggers, and Coralie Fargeat — before going on to win over thirty awards and become Academy Award qualified.

 

Her feature screenplays include Vestige, a finalist for the Sundance Collab Cultural Impact Residency, and Blood & Bark, a Quarterfinalist in Square Peg Social — a program curated by Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen.

 

An alumna of the Directors & Editors Guild of New Zealand’s Women Filmmakers Incubator and recipient of the New Zealand Film Commission’s Talent Development Grant, Peel-McGregor was also awarded the EB-1A U.S. green card for extraordinary artistic ability.

 

She continues to develop work driven by instinct, psychological tension, and emotionally charged visual storytelling.