It was announced in The New York Times on 28 December 2007 , that Eldon would be the focus of a biographical film entitled '' The Journey Is the Destination '' , the title of which is based on a page from Dan 's journals featured in the book of the same name published by Chronicle Books . The film was directed by Bronwen Hughes and produced by Martin Katz , Kathy Eldon , Richard Arlook and Kweku Mandela ( a grandson of Nelson Mandela ) and was shot in South Africa from July to September 2014 . The film premiered in 2016 at the Toronto Film Festival and was released on Netflix in October , 2017
Toronto Film Festival
2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Dan Eldon