Mexico City, Mexico, September 22nd, 2011- HBO Latin America announced that this past September 3rd production began for the third season of award-winning Original Series Capadocia™. The upcoming episodes promise more drama and action, as well as fresh faces and storylines. HBO Latin America Originals will continue to head executive production and general supervision of the series, and Mexican company Argos will be responsible for overall production.
“We are very proud to begin filming the third season of Capadocia, as it returns to tie together loose ends and create new intrigues,” said Luis F. Peraza, Executive Vice President of Original Productions for HBO Latin America Group. “Our promise of high quality production is once again reflected in this series, as well as in other projects we will soon be presenting pan-regionally.”
This season in Capadocia, more opposing forces will emerge. La Cofradía (The Brotherhood), a sinister group of elite businessmen who control the ECSO Corporation, and, in turn, Capadocia, stand defiantly against Teresa Lagos (Dolores Heredia), the person who knows the prison’s darkest secrets. La Cofradía has placed its power in Federico Márquez (Juan Manuel Bernal), who is being groomed as the group’s national leader, and in Hirám Alós (Marius Biegai), a sinister psychiatrist whose experiments in behavior manipulation will be used on Capadocia’s inmates, and then spread throughout society to wreak havoc. In response, Teresa is forced to return from the dead and fight for reform in the name of justice. Ultimately, war between good and evil will be declared.
This new season returns with the leading cast of: Dolores Heredia, Juan Manuel Bernal, Marco Treviño, Cecilia Suárez, Aída López and Ana de la Reguera. Also set to star are: Gabriela de la Garza, Damián Alcázar, Ernesto Gómez Cruz and Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee, Adriana Barraza.
Capadocia season three will be filmed during the next six months and will consist of 13, hour-long episodes directed by Pitipol Ybarra, Javier Patrón Fox, Carlos Carrera and Moisés Ortiz Urquidi.
The first season of Capadocia was nominated at the International Emmy Awards in the following categories: Best Drama Series, Best Performance by an Actress - Cecilia Suárez and Best Performance by an Actor - Oscar Olivares. Additionally, in 2008, it received a Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for Outstanding International Producer for a Drama TV Series and a Reflet d’Or (Golden Reflection) at the Tous Ecrans Cinema Festival in Geneva, Switzerland for Best International TV Series. In 2009, it received recognition by The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) as Outstanding Spanish-Language Drama Series. The second season of Capadocia was nominated for a Golden Nymph Award at the 51st Monte-Carlo Television Festival in the Best Drama TV Series category.
