My first idea for a fantasy film meet is the Isles of Scilly. Not entirely practical, as it’s rather hard to get to, even though just off the tip of Lands End. But it’s a magical archipelago that would surely give a host of photographic opportunities.
I’ve only been to the Scillies once, but at an impressionable age. I was 16 when my parents took a holiday home for a fortnight on Bryher, one of the smaller islands, with only a half dozen houses on it at that time. The tourist boats from St Mary’s used to arrive at 10 and leave at 4, and outside that time we had the island more or less to ourselves. The house we stayed in had a picture window looking over the sound across to Tresco, and I think taking in a view of the round tower known as Cromwell’s Castle. My father later painted a picture of the Castle, one of very few he painted of scenes in the UK (his other pictures were mostly from southern Europe). He painted using black and white photos as his guide, taken on his Zeiss Ikonta, maybe even the one that I now have. But although I have a wooden box crammed with many of his negatives, I don’t think the Scilly photos are there, so presumably lost like most of his post-war photos.
To have a meet there, it would make sense to stay on St Mary’s, as it’s simpler to get to the other islands from there. You can get there by boat from Penzance… but the crossing can be dire due to tidal interactions between the English and Bristol channels (he said from experience!). You can (could) also fly from Lands End, Newquay and Exeter, but in a helicopter or small planes, and who knows how luggage plus photo backpacks plus tripods would fare…
Nick Jenkins, a Welsh photographer who runs a number of photo workshops has in the past run workshops in the Scillies. I’ve had my eye on these for several years, but sadly the past two years they have been cancelled. I really wanted to go this year, but again it was cancelled before I could book (and would have been cancelled anyway due to Covid restrictions). (Eg see
https://freespiritimages.com/workshops/scillies-2020-photography-workshop/) It's a bit expensive, but I did wonder about taking over his entire trip... the main reason is he knows all the logistics and good places to go (he's mainly one of the digerati, but is certainly familiar with film, though it would reduce the opportunities for some of the things that go with such digeri workshops, like daily image sharing, PP etc... we wouldn't need those anyway, 'cos we knows our stuff don't we... ahem again!).
But hang practicality, this is a fantasy film meet, so it’s my first offer!
you can bring a tent and sleep outside 
