Three Ring Nickel (TRN) is a production company founded by Terra Wellington that champions cinematic storytelling rooted in resilience, transformation, and the depth of the human spirit. We develop character-driven narratives across film and television, often within elevated, speculative, or genre-forward spaces. Our stories explore emotionally resonant journeys that entertain, uplift, and provoke reflection.
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TV SERIES
Magnolia Hill
Winner “Best Thriller Series” Catalyst Content Festival 2024
“Magnolia Hill” is a one-hour supernatural drama TV series set in a drought-afflicted Oregon town where a group of friends and neighbors find themselves ensnared by a mysterious supernatural energy force. It radically alters their lives and exposes their deepest wishes.
The show has a diverse and inclusive cast, including humanized female roles. The main message is about finding healing in your life. We also explore climate instability and how to find meaningful hope within that reality.
This series is also a PGA Create 2022 fellowship Finalist, and a Quarterfinalist at CineStory, Screencraft, and BAFF.
Creator and EP: Terra Wellington
Status: Script
Two Santa Anas
“Two Santa Anas” is a half-hour historical fantasy drama centered on a 70-something woman from present day, and a young writer from 1911, whose lives become entwined across time — a story about regret, resilience, and intergenerational transformation. The show offers a mysterious twist on time travel, and explores depolarizing perspectives through family tension, cultural identity, and the ways women navigate broken systems and second chances.
Based on the short story “Two Santa Anas” and its unique glimpse into the fascinating and rarely-seen historical landscape of early 1900s rural California, just north of Los Angeles.
“Two Santa Anas” is a Finalist at the Catalyst Content Festival 2024, BAFF Official Selection under its former title “What Dreams Are Made Of.” And a Second Rounder with Launch Pad.
Creator and EP: Terra Wellington
Status: Script
FILMS
Habitable
“Habitable” is a feature film that takes place in 2040. When a shocking medical crisis destroys her future, a woman dedicated to serving her controlling government must stop a human catastrophe that will affect millions of climate migrants.
“HABITABLE is simultaneously terrifying and gut-wrenchingly familiar, but the writer leaves a delicate thread of hope within the catastrophic story. Each scene carefully boosts tension, with clear high stakes even as those stakes shift with each new element…the writer deftly reveals how human behavior adapts under the weight of these new circumstances and that is where the greatest terror lies.” — The Black List
This elevated, highly stylized sci-fi film has a strong female lead arc within a motherhood story. The climate emergency is front and center. Themes include reconciliation and forgiveness, and the healing power of connection and truth. AR tech is also explored.
Producer/Writer: Terra Wellington
Producer: B.D. Gunnell
Co-Producer: Anthony Fitzgerald
Composer: Alexandra Petkovski
Production Services: Fremantle Australia
TimeShare
“TimeShare” is a sci-fi comedy feature film about an overworked economics professor who receives a
time-travel birthday gift — and she gets more than she bargained for.
Producer: Terra Wellington
Producer: B.D. Gunnell
Writer: Jules Robinson