The Hollywood Reported actually had a great piece on filmmakers’ reactions to John Greyson’s hissy fit, in which they include the following great responses:

Veteran Canadian documentary maker Simcha Jacobovici, who was born in Israel, said Greyson should test his sympathy for the Palestinians by screening his short film about the 2008 Sarajevo Queer Festival in Tel Aviv and on the West Bank.

“He will be invited to screen the film at the local (Tel Aviv) cinematheque. He can then walk around with the same sign down the streets of Palestinian Ramallah. He should document the experience on video and then enter it into next year’s TIFF — posthumously,” Jacobovici said.

Veteran Canadian film producer Robert Lantos (“Sunshine,” “Being Julia”) also had some great comments:

“I have no doubt that both the festival and its patrons will survive John Greyson’s boycott and will do just fine without seeing his short documentary, ‘Covered’… Since [1978], the (Toronto) festival has been free from the pressure of those whose fascist agenda is to impose their views on others, stifle the voices they don’t like and interfere with people’s right to see whatever they wish and make up their own minds. Until now… Then again, perhaps he (Greyson) is just an opportunist eagerly leaping on the ‘Israel apartheid’ bandwagon in order to garner more attention for his film than it would have ever received had it played at the festival.”