About Faunix
Toni Escandell, driven by the desire to share the values of the natural world and its wildlife, set out to create and promote an audiovisual content channel. Its name, Faunix.tv: “The world that shows you the fauna of the planet.”
A digital, educational channel of public interest designed to teach, inform, entertain, and engage audiences of all ages while they learn about the animals of our planet. A world of biodiversity right before our eyes!
The Faunix team is made up of experts from various fields of biology and the audiovisual industry. This fusion of specialists has a clear mission: to explore, study, research, inform, and document—through image and sound—the behavior, phenomena, and unique characteristics of the world’s wildlife, and to share it through faunix.tv in the form of documentaries, series, interviews, and soon, educational content for students.
Who is Toni Escandell?
Trajectòria professional
Born in 1962, Toni Escandell is the founder of the production company Paleârtica Films and an accomplished naturalist experienced in filming wildlife. He has worked with Sir David Attenborough of the BBC on his series “Life in Cold Blood.”
Toni Escandell has gained considerable popularity among viewers in the Balearic Islands as the presenter of the series “Baleares Salvaje” (Wild Balearic Islands). His career highlights include:
• Director, cameraman, and screenwriter of the internationally screened documentary “Shipwrecked by Evolution,” which has aired on ARTE France, Germany, and other channels, as well as in Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, etc.
A documentary featuring new discoveries for science, some of which have been the subject of study by scientists and botanists.
Shipwrecked by Evolution has won several international awards:
Best European Documentary Award at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in New York. 2017
Second Jury Prize at the Ménigoute International Ornithological Film Festival in France. 2017
Excellence Award for Nature Documentary at the Accolade Global Film Competition in California. 2018
Excellence Award for Nature Documentary at the Best Short Film Competition in California. 2018
Humanitarian Grand Prize for Nature Documentary at the Accolade Global Film Competition in California. 2018
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Selected for special mention and certificate of merit at the VAASA WILDLIFE FESTIVAL in Finland. 2018.
Director, scriptwriter, cameraman and presenter of the 66-episode half-hour series entitled “Balears Salvatge” for IB3 television from 2009 to 2018.
First prize in the SOMRIU AWARDS for the best program 2018 in his last installment of the series Balears Salvatge that he has made for IB3TV.
Director and cameraman for Menorca of the program “La Mirada” for IB3tv. More than 150 reports made. 2013 – 2014.
Director, cameraman and screenwriter of the series “Natural History of the Island of Menorca” which consists of eight episodes: Geology, Prehuman Fauna, Plants and Mushrooms, Invertebrates, Submerged Fauna, Reptiles and Amphibians, Birds and Mammals broadcast by TV3 and International Satellite Channel. 1997- 2006.
Director, cameraman and scriptwriter of the documentary “Genetic Memory of the Aufrany 50”. Selected at the international ornithological film festival of “Menigoute” in France and broadcast by Televisió de Catalunya and the international satellite channel. In Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
Own images and montages in the state used in the first and second parts of the Catalan series on nature, entitled “Bèsties” for TV3 TV.
Director, cameraman and scriptwriter of the documentary “Ecology of the Island of the Air”.
Director, cameraman and scriptwriter of the documentary “Aus Aquàtiques de Menorca”, broadcast by Televisió de Catalunya, for Televisió Valenciana and the International Satellite Channel.
Director, cameraman and scriptwriter of the documentary “Aus de Menorca”. Edited in Catalan, Spanish and English.
Director, cameraman and scriptwriter of the documentary “Descens del Milà Reial a Menorca” with the sponsorship of the Leader program of the European Union and, broadcast for Televisió de Catalunya and Canal Satèl·lit Internacional.
Camera director and scriptwriter of the documentary “Ecology of the Albufera d’es Grau” commissioned by the government of the Balearic Islands, department of the environment and broadcast for Televisió de Catalunya and Canal Satèl·lit Internacional.
Director, camera and scriptwriter of the documentary “El Busqueret cap negre” Winner of the 20th Menorca short and documentary competition broadcast for Televisió de Catalunya and Canal Satèl·lit Internacional. 2008.
Director, camera and scriptwriter of the documentary “Illots Costaners de Menorca” commissioned by the GOB.
Director, camera and scriptwriter of the audiovisual “Races Autòctones de Menorca” commissioned by the GOB.
Director, camera of the documentary commissioned by the Consell Insular de Menorca of the international Project “LIFE “Flora Amenaçada”.
Director and cameraman of “The Science Fair 2005 – 2007 – 2009” in Menorca.
BOOKS:
Coautor de la “Revisió Avi faunística de Menorca” editat pel Museu de Zoologia i l’Ajun
Author of the book “Peixos de Menorca”. 2007.
Author of the book “Les Nostres Flors” Author of the texts. 2007
Coordinator for Menorca of the “Atlas of the Reproductive Birds of Spain” of the Spanish Ornithology Society. 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Author of several ornithological articles in specific publications, including the “National Geographic” magazine.
Member of the Editorial Committee of “The Ornithological Yearbook of the Balearic Islands”.
Member of the Bird Rarities Committee of the Balearic Islands.
GAMES:
Author of the game “Camí de Cavalls” from Menorca.