Jinna Lee is a programmer at Ulju Mountain Film Festival(UMFF) from 2018 and has a PhD in Film Studies from Hanyang University. Since 2005, she has worked at the Jeonju International Film Festival(JIFF), the Jaechun International Music and Film Festival(JIMFF), the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (DMZ Docs), the Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF), and the International Intangible Heritage Film Festival (IIFF). She has served on the jury at the Jokja Netpac Asian Film Festival, the Kaohsiung Film Festival, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the Golden Horse Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival. She regularly treks the Youngnam Alps, where the UMFF takes place.

Kiran Bhakta Joshi, animation veteran and director-producer, is founder and co-CEO of Incessant Rain Studios, a state-of-the-art animation, visual effects and movie studio. He has over three decades of technical, artistic and management experience in Hollywood. He was previously Visual Effects Supervisor at The Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He also managed the early development of Tangled and Frozen.

His latest short film, Mandala, has won awards at various international film festivals. He was co-director and producer for the award-winning documentary, Moving
Mountains: The Awakening. He was executive producer on Bobblehead: The Movie.
He also worked as the Executive VFX producer on Selma, Chapple, Stranger Things, A
Series of Unfortunate Events, S.W.A.T., Red Sparrow, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Asura, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Yellowstone, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, SEE, 1883, The Meg, Sacred Lies, Watchmen, and Lost In Space, among other films.

Michael Pause was born in 1952 in Munich, Germany. Mountains have been a lifelong passion and occupation. After completing the German School of Journalism in Munich, he studied political science and history. He started writing guidebooks in 1978, then edited a magazine and worked for 40 years as an author, director, producer and presenter for a TV show about mountaineering for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been artistic director of the Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival since it started in 2003. Alongside all this, Pause climbed a lot of mountains and continues to do so as a retiree.