The Mechanics of Pressure
KEITH GEORGE
Founder & Executive Producer
Keith George knows how systems hide their costs — he spent twenty years helping them do it. As a senior marketing executive for global organizations, he learned how power conceals itself inside process. Faultline Media is where that knowledge became drama.
He brings the same structural rigor to development that he spent two decades applying inside some of the world's largest organizations.
Authorial Throughline
Keith’s work examines how systems are built to endure—and what happens when they begin to fail under the weight of their own logic. Across film, television, and stage, he builds worlds focused on the moment when structure and truth collide, forcing those within the system to decide whether to maintain the facade or trigger the audit.
Artistic Statement
The "Systems Drama"
I spent over twenty years inside the corporate marketing and advertising machinery before I started writing about it.
As an executive, I didn't just observe how institutions survive and expand; I helped engineer them. I know how data is shaped, how power hides inside process, and how systems are deliberately built to outlast the people who created them. That knowledge didn't leave me when I left the boardroom—it became my dramatic lens.
My plays and screenplays live at the point of structural rupture, when something buried too long finally breaks the surface. I keep returning to what I call the "ghosts in the gears": the erased narratives and unpaid debts that institutions carry forward, compounding interest, until someone has to reckon with the cost.
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In The Ledger, the vice of 1898 Storyville is governed by a madam’s books that carry more weight than the law.
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In Black Monday, a 19th-century cotton exchange and a modern Wall Street algorithm are revealed to be the same machine in different clothing.
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In Lake Town, a community’s submerged history rises to demand a payment long overdue.