"As part of a research series conducted alongside Yangon’s annual MEMORY! International Heritage Film Festival, Kimberley Pallenschat explores the challenges and opportunities faced by Myanmar’s independent filmmakers. The focus of the festival’s 2018 edition was on Freedom of the Press and Democracy in their representation through cinema, and was supported by a grant from the Global Research Network on Parliaments and People. The research detailed here was conducted between 7-16 November 2018 and hopes to shed light on the current attitudes and debates that surround the question of freedom of expression during the country’s transition. The three articles in this series each examine three of the festival’s programmes, which took place simultaneously in Yangon and provide different approaches to the themes of artistic and journalistic freedom in Myanmar: the Journalism and Culture workshop, a journalistic workshop organized in conjunction with the Myanmar Journalism Institute; the Myanmar Script Fund competition and workshop targeting young filmmakers; and a conference gathering various international experts around the topic of Press and Democracy in Myanmar and the Asian continent. In the previous contribution, Marie Puyssegur explored the meaning of freedom of expression for Myanmar’s future journalists. In the forthcoming and final contribution, Theo Stojanov will discuss the proceedings of the Press and Democracy conference. Below, Kimberley Pallenschat considers the impact of state-sponsored censorship on the creative freedoms of independent filmmakers, and challenges and opportunities that emerge as they turn to an international market for funding and support..."