Lioness screened at numerous festivals, including Tribeca Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival London, and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival where it won the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award. The film was broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens series in 2008. Lioness was instrumental in launching Senator Patty Murray’s (D-WA) Women Veterans Healthcare Improvement bill, which President Obama signed into law as part of The Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act on May 5 of 2010. The film’s other accomplishments include the activation of policy discussions between the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, and the House Armed Services Committee about documenting women soldiers’ service outside their military occupations. The film was also adopted as a training tool nationwide within the VA healthcare infrastructure and in North Carolina’s AHEC-supported training and treatment program for rural healthcare providers and veterans.