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Well NASA is planning self assembling buildings for the missions to the moon and Mars. Why would a self assembling biosphere be a big step when there is no other practical way to build anything on other planets? The astronauts are not gonna be huffing and puffing in their suits to build themselves shelters on the moon, it's cheaper to send robots ahead than enough oxygen for human exercise.
Gravity on the moon should also be problematic, but going from one low G environment to another is not as bad as spending years on a 0-G environment like a space station, and people have done that then returned to earth in better shape than they left.
You probably mean that any offspring of the colonists would develop differently in a low G environment. I hope you looked up whatever scientific experiments were done on insects and mammals giving birth on space stations. Perhaps it's not possible at all, and offspring will have to be grown outside the body in gravity chambers?
It's one thing to do a little research and make a movie that's science fiction, which you're saying you did. But the way the movie looks to me is like a prediction of the near future, something realistic, based on what we know today. Like the documentaries about how we might go to Mars. Those are a bit different than science fiction about violent aliens or a dying sun.
So when I see what look like solar panels still attached on what is stated to be a one way trip to a world where there isn't enough sunlight, it seems like a really cool artistic effect, but out of place scientifically. You could have made solar sails look just as cool.
Seems like you started on sails in your concept art, but didn't find the cooler looking concepts http://www.newscientist.com/arti… and http://www.sciencedaily.com/rele… which would be realistic in combination with a plasma engine.