Deepak Haldankar (born 17 December 1947) is an award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. He was the first Indian Director Cinematographer to shoot 35mm Eastmancolor films in Antarctica. The film Exploration Antarctica won an award at the Toulon Maritime film festival, France, in 1987. He covered two mount Everest expeditions in 1984 and 1985. He won national awards for a film about the Indian Mount Everest expeditions in 1984, featuring the first Indian woman to climbed Mount Everest (Bachendri Pal).