This general discussion of women filmmakers is great, but I was originally asking about is whether any women have yet entered that Canon of ‘great filmmakers,’ either personally for you or, in your opinion, the general film world.  Within experimental film, Maya Deren was one of the first, male or female.  Whereas in narrative filmmaking, I think only Akerman and Campion may qualify.  By the way, what I mean by ‘canon of great filmmakers,’ is probably an Andrew Sarris-like listing of filmmakers who are so deeply important, that a discussion of film and film history is incomplete without them (from Ozu & Hitch & to Altman & Rivette, ect. ect. ect.)