This film had its World Premiere at the 26th Encounters International Documentary Film Festival and the first two screenings were sold out. It was nominated "Best of the Fest." Wild Coast Warriors was selected as the Best Feature in the Environmental & Cultural category at the Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival 2024. Wild Coast Warriors, has also been awarded the Best Feature Documentary award at the Hill Film Festival in Bangladesh. Wild Coast Warriors has been judged an Award Winner (Best Documentary Feature, November season) at the International Guadalajara Film Awards in Mexico and nominated for the Best Feature Doc at Madrid Indie Film Festival Awards in Spain. It has been selected as a winner of the IMDb qualifying seasonal competition of Montreal Independent Film Festival, as the Best Environmental Film, it was given an Outstanding Achievement Award Winner at the Sunbardan International Film Festival in West Bengal, India and given an honorable mention at the Lookout Wild Film Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. It was nominated for the Best Documentary at the Dokumentale International Documentary and Media Festival in Berlin. It has also been officially selected at the Africa International Human Rights Festival in Nigeria, the Lulea International Film Festival in Sweden, the British Columbia Environmental Film Festival in Vancouver, the Africa Film Festival in Kenya, the Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, USA, the South African Film Festival in Australia and New Zealand, LIFE AFTER OIL International Film Festival in Sardinia, Italy, WOW Wales One World Film Festival in the UK, the Act Human Rights Film Festival in Colorado, United States, the Festival de Cine Amazonia del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bonne Chance Film Festival in Paris, the Kotka Human Rights Film Festival in Finland the Seoul International Eco Film Festival and the Eastern Cape Film Expo in Makanda, South Africa.