Angels Crest is a small budget independent film. It is remarkable insofar that it manages to be successful with so little resources.
The storyline by itself is interesting but would not have been able to have been successfully brought to film [especially on a shoestring budget] without superb acting and direction. If one listens to the director's commentary, the film was made with an excellent crew.
The two actors carried the whole film on their backs and everything worked as it had to. The gas station sequence comes very close to being a great cinematic scene. The film score was also quite good and the sampled instrumentation wasn't too annoying for me.
There are technical problems with the film such as flaws in the DVD transfer and shot to shot colour and lighting differences which money would have solved.
I would like to see Mr. Couto get a project with some real money and see what he could come up with.