
Yared Zeleke was born in Ethiopia in 1978. He studied cinema at New York University. He worked for a number of NGOs before embarking on a directing career. Yared has written, produced, directed and edited several short documentaries (
Allula) and fiction shorts (
Housewarming). He has also worked with the director Joshua Atesh Litle on the documentary
The Furious Force of Rhymes. In Ethiopia, his native country, he has edited documentary films for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. In 2015, Yared completed his first feature-length movie, called
Lamb, filmed on the high plateaux of Northern Ethiopia.