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==