With above average intelligence and beneath contempt social skills, geeks are accustomed to being used and abused. Rarely are they hailed as revolutionising cinema or regressing the art form irrevocably.
According to its producers, Faintheart, a British rom-com set in the world of Viking battle re-enactments, released free in cinemas and online today, “sought to harness the collective creativity of the world’s largest online community in making the world’s first fully user-generated feature film”.



