Tim Highsted is the Senior Film Editor of acquired feature films for Channel4 and its portfolio of channels. He has worked in the film industry since the mid-Eighties in arts and film programming and theatrical distribution at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He has previously worked at the San Francisco International Film Festival, as Deputy Director of the London Film Festival for the British Film Institute and as Programmer on the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now BFI Flare).