[4][5] Right Footed premiered at the 2015 Mirabile Dictu Film Festival, known as the "Catholic Academy Awards", at the Vatican City, Rome, where it won the "Best Documentary" honor.

[26] On October 5, 2016, it was announced that "Right Footed" would be released on DVD for private home use and through Brainstorm Media on iTunes in the United States on November 1, 2016, and that an educational version would be made available through Kanopy.

[27] The DVD features an additional 25 minutes of video material including deleted scenes, a commentary track with Jessica Cox, and is closed captioned in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

[28] On February 2, 2017, it was announced that a 55-minute version of "Right Footed" would be released on the National Geographic Channel networks on six continents, in 83 individual countries around the world.

[31] "Right Footed" screened in Europe, Africa and Asia as part of the American Film Showcase (also known as the American Film Program), a cultural exchange program operated by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the University of Southern California.