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This issue of JAF presents five films from Greece, India, Guinea Bissau, and Cameroon. The films vary in approach and style from the sensorial Stereotype, Arjang Omrani's meditation on racial and gender judgment, to Roger Canal's Chasing Shadows, a classic observational study of an indigenous prophetic religious movement. The realities of survival migration for a teenage refugee from Afghanistan in Nikos Katsos and Christos Stefanou's film …In Between…, and Trond Waage's The World Has Not Changed, about the loss of cultural identity and the power of radio to revitalize it, are stories told through a defined protagonist. Five films with five different story-telling strategies that illustrate the breadth and diversity of anthropological filmmaking today.

We are very pleased to announce a new issue of the Journal of Anthropological Film (JAF), Volume 4, no. 1, our sixth publication. For this issue the editors have chosen five films that offer a diverse look at world culture and represent an even more diverse range of styles and approaches.

Journal of Anthropological Film (JAF) has just launched its fourth issue. In the two years since it was established we've learned a lot about the practical challenges of producing a one-of-a-kind, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to anthropological films. JAF's mission is to publish films that stand alone as original academic contributions to anthropology and ethnographic film.