I Am Mother
Director: Grant Sputore (debut)
Cast: Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, Tahlia Sturzaker
Details: Australian filmmaker Grant Sputore makes his directorial debut on this low-budget, high-concept sci-fi drama which he co-wrote with Michael Lloyd Green and which made the 2016 edition of the Black List. Hilary Swank flew into Adelaide last year to shoot the project which stars a small and mostly unknown cast including rising Danish actress Clara Rugaard.
In the film, a teenage girl is raised underground by a robot ‘Mother’ – designed to repopulate the Earth following an extinction event. But their bond is threatened when an inexplicable blood-drenched female stranger arrives with alarming news that calls into question what the daughter has been told by ‘Mother’ about the outside world. WETA Workshop is behind the building of the robot at the heart of the production which was entirely shot in South Australia.
