Álex Pina

Alejandro "Álex" Pina Calafi is a Spanish television producer, writer, and director, known for the crime drama Money Heist. Previous shows include Vis a vis, El embarcadero, and Los hombres de Paco. Sky Rojo started filming in November 2019, while White Lines, a co-production for Netflix with The Crown team, first streamed on 15 May 2020. The Hollywood Reporter listed Pina in their "Top International Showrunners of 2019". His newest show is El Refugio Atómico, or Billionaires' Bunker, a Netflix TV series co-created with Esther Martinez Lobato, released in 2025.

Biography

Born in Pamplona in 1967, Pina began his career as a journalist in the press such as El Diario Vasco and Diario de Mallorca and later in the Europa Press Agency.
Between 1993 and 1996, he worked as a scriptwriter and editor for Videomedia until he then joined Globomedia in 1996.
In 1997, at the same production company, he started his career as a screenwriter in the television series Más que amigos, from there, he began to play the roles of creator and executive producer in iconic Spanish series such as Los Serrano, Los hombres de Paco, and El barco.
At the end of 2016, after the launch of Vis a vis by Antena 3, Pina left Globomedia and founded Vancouver Media, his own production company. The first production was La Casa de Papel (Money Heist), which premiered on Antena 3 on 2 May 2017 with more than four million viewers. The series was distributed worldwide by Netflix and became the biggest success of his career, leading to the signing of an exclusive contract with the streaming platform for the creation and production of an original series. In 2020 Alex Pina produced White Lines.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Creator	Writer	Executive Producer	Director	Notes
1997-1998	Más que amigos					Wrote 10 episodes
1998-2002	Periodistas					Wrote 55 episodes
2003-2008	Los Serrano					146 episodes; Co-created with Daniel Écija Wrote 6 episodes and directed unknown episodes
2005-2010	Los Hombres de Paco					118 episodes; Co-created with Daniel Écija Wrote 12 episodes and co-directed one
2011-2013	El Barco					41 episodes; Co-created with Ivan Escobar
2014	Bienvenidos al Lolita					TV-Miniseries; Co-created with Fernando González Molina and Esther Martínez
2015-2016	Vis a vis					Creator: 51 episodes Showrunner from 2015-2016 from 35 episodes and wrote 20 episodes
2017-2021	La Casa de Papel					41 episodes; Wrote 33 episodes
2019-2020	El Embarcadero					16 episodes; Co-created with Esther Martínez Lobato
2020	White Lines					10 episodes
2020	Vis a vis: El Oasis					8 episodes
2021	Los Hombres de Paco: El Regreso					15 episodes
2021-2023	Sky Rojo					24 episodes
2023	Berlin					Co-created with ; 8 episodes