Tim League

Rolling Roadshow

League founded the Rolling Roadshow, a traveling screening series that presents films in outdoor or location-based settings associated with the works being shown.

Mondo

In 2004, League co-founded entertainment merchandiser Mondo to produce and distribute limited-edition poster art, T‑shirts, toys and vinyl record soundtracks.

Fantastic Fest

In 2005, League co-founded Fantastic Fest with Harry Knowles, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, and Tim McCanlies. Held annually at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas, the festival focuses on genre cinema, especially horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, and cult films.

In interviews, League has described the festival as having begun as a showcase for international genre films in Austin before evolving into a larger industry event that also aimed to create opportunities for emerging filmmakers. Coverage of the festival has emphasized its mix of film premieres, fan-centered programming, and live events, reflecting League's broader approach to cinema exhibition as a curated and immersive experience.

Films that premiered at Fantastic Fest have included Zombieland, which had its world premiere at the festival in 2009. In 2007, Variety publisher Charles Koones included Fantastic Fest among the "Ten Festivals We Love". In 2008, MovieMaker named it one of "The 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee", and in 2017 it included the festival in its list of "The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World".

Drafthouse Films

In 2010, League founded Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. The company specialized in independent, cult, genre, and international cinema, extending League's activities from exhibition into film distribution and curation.

Neon

In 2017, League co-founded the film distribution company Neon with entertainment executive Tom Quinn. The company was launched as an independent distributor focused on acquiring and releasing auteur-driven and specialized films. Neon later became known for distributing films including I, Tonya and Parasite. Parasite became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

As of 2019, League was no longer involved in the company's day-to-day operations.

Metro Private Cinema

In 2025, League launched Metro Private Cinema in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The venture was described as a private cinema concept combining small-group screenings with upscale dining, and was characterized by trade coverage as League’s first major exhibition project after he stepped back from day-to-day leadership at Alamo Drafthouse.

Time Out described the venue as a 20-screen complex and reported that its first Chelsea location was intended as a pilot for future Metro Private Cinema venues.

Artistic and curatorial work

In addition to his work in film exhibition and distribution, League has been involved in art, design, and curatorial projects related to cinema culture. Coverage of his work has described him as a collector of film ephemera and as a figure involved in shaping the design and atmosphere of Alamo Drafthouse venues.

In 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse's Brooklyn location opened with the House of Wax, a bar and museum space built around a nineteenth-century German wax-museum collection that League acquired and installed as part of the theater's design. The space was presented as a hybrid of themed bar, exhibition, and museum installation, reflecting League's interest in the overlap between filmgoing, collecting, and immersive exhibition design.

League has also supported music-centered film initiatives through collaborations with arts organizations. In 2025, Golden Hornet's Cinema Recomposed program described him as a partner in a mentorship and live-performance project pairing young composers with silent films, culminating in a Fantastic Fest premiere with live score. Golden Hornet has also credited League with helping assemble composer mentorship for the program and listed him as host of one of its fundraising events.

League has also been associated with live and interdisciplinary programming beyond film exhibition. monochrom's performance series Eignblunzn was restaged in 2023, and League contributed to both the stage design and the performance itself. League also contributed a text to Beautiful Failure, the 25th-anniversary Roboexotica coffee-table book.

Film preservation and archival work

League has also been involved in film preservation and repertory-cinema initiatives connected to the Alamo Drafthouse orbit. According to KUT, he began collecting obscure 35 mm film prints in the late 1990s, building a large personal collection that was screened through repertory programs at Alamo Drafthouse venues.

The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), a nonprofit archive founded in 2009 to preserve and distribute genre films, was built in part from League's personal collection of film prints and elements. By 2019, Austin Film Society described Tim and Karrie League as among AGFA's board members and advisors, while ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer listed League as the organization's president in public tax filings. League's preservation-related work has also included supporting repertory and archival screening programs through Alamo Drafthouse.