The Twilight Motel is the busiest motel in Miami, where the rooms rent by the hour, the concealed garages have private staircases to the rooms, and the sheets are clean.

Part confessional, part broken love story this series of remarkably intimate interviews softly penetrates the darker side of desire, as sex, infidelity and the allure of the fast lane propel these stories. All are seeking some kind of justification for their actions. Mr. R, an affluent businessman recounts a lifetime of lunchtime sexual encounters with secretaries. Mr. B loves his wife "more than life," but has a plethora of excuses for his hooker and drug habit. Beautiful, soft-spoken Rose was a straight "A" student until she fell in with the wrong crowd. Richard feels his destiny in life is to seduce married women. In the privacy of the motel bedrooms men and women become candidly revealing, dark and funny, transcending the limits of their circumstances, and redeeming themselves with their stories.

2009 Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada

2009 Edmonton International Film Festival, Canada

2009 Windsor International Film Festival, Canada

2009 Cork Film Festival, Ireland

2009 Victoria Film Festival, Canada

2009 Planete doc Review Film Festival, Poland
Won Best Documentary Award

2010 Female Eye Film Festival, Canada

“fascinating, heartbreaking slice-of-life peek into another world. Gorgeously made.”
John Doyle, THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“fascinating documentary about those who frequent the clandestine no-tell motels on S.W. 8th St. in Miami. ...subjects speak with remarkable candor, giving the documentary the air of a confessional.”
THE TORONTO STAR

“Exceptionally beautiful. ...at a time when it seems nearly every celebrity and politician is cheating on his or her partner, this is a fascinating look at what drives people.”
THE NATIONAL POST

“Tracking the exploits of seven patrons of the Twilight Motel in Miami’s Little Havana neighbourhood, the film captures candid confessions about drug addiction, prostitution and betrayal, delivered straight to the camera with a vulnerability that is uncomfortably engaging. Honesty seems to be Rose’s sole policy in this film, and a sensuous intimacy is achieved thanks to Daniel Grant’s cinematography. ...Rose has the sense to know that less is more.”
Chandler Levack, EYE WEEKLY

“Toronto filmmaker Alison Rose found 8th Street on a visit to Miami and became fascinated by the hidden stories being played out in the motels. The quietly sophisticated, philosophical young director charmed one of the motel owners into letting her film a verité doc on his premises. ...Rose’s film eschews violence and action. It’s about character and motivation and storytelling.”
CLASSICAL 96.3 FM

"darkly beautiful. Rose frames the film impeccably."
A'N'E VIBE.COM

"Love at the Twilight Motel may very well be the most engaging, insightful and tragically human doc at this year's Hot Docs festival."
EXCLAIM.CA

"revealing, not just titillating."
NOW MAGAZINE

"disarmingly lucid, and affecting."
VUE WEEKLY

“A Must See Docu ...so mesmerizing I’m betting you won’t be able to turn away. Shot seductively by cinematographer Daniel Grant ... an intensely moving human document about survival with flashes of insight that are stunning.”
James Bawden, BLOGSPOT