After the screening, Rick Prelinger, genius compiler of ephemera, and DeeDee Halleck, media pirate, will ruminate about history, memory, and image ownership in the age of internet pix searches.Constructed almost entirely from film clips-cartoons, newsreels, educational films, home movies, and features- The Gringo in Mañanaland: A Musical documents Latin America; that is, the Hollywood version. The "neighbors to the South" depicted here are a fantasy, of course, featuring such staple creations as the Latin lover, highway bandits, ignorant peasants, and banana republics. DeeDee Halleck, founder of Paper Tiger Television and cofounder of Deep Dish Community Television Network, opens the film with a reminiscence of the period of her childhood spent in Cuba. In local theaters she watched American films depicting an unrecognizable Latin America. Now, in a fair-use examination, Halleck reinscribes history with clever juxtapositions of well-chosen clips. You may recognize gringos Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, or Ronald Reagan (as a banana plantation manager), or maybe the Marines invading Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, waging battles in support of U.S. policy whether on the silver screen or sovereign soil.