SPOT THE PRO!

Spot the Pro is a YouTube series that challenges pro writers and industry professionals to read pages from different screenwriters and spot which one is the pro.

The team who spots the most? They win bragging rights.

And if we (Nate, Jason, or Joe) guess that your page is the pro, you’ll get private feedback on your first 10 pages from us.

It’s super fun and educational, every single time. Want to be part of it? Awesome, because we’re looking for:

  • First pages from professional screenwriters

  • First pages from amateur screenwriters

Professional Screenwriters

  • We need great, professional pages from working pros to show our viewers where the bar is

  • Some professionals like to submit pages from earlier in their careers — typically from those scripts that earned them their first reps or jobs. These are great. The gap between those and the amateur pages is typically smaller, and it also mitigates any chance of reputational risk, since we’ll mention it’s an earlier page in the episode

  • Your name, headshot, and a short bio will be included in the episode. If you like, we’ll also include your primary social media handle and/or website

  • We define professionals for these purposes as screenwriters who are repped and who’ve made more than $50,000 as a screenwriter

  • If that’s you, please reach out by email and click that icon in the upper right corner. Thanks!

Aspiring Screenwriters

  • We need pages from amateurs that can stack up against a professional’s. These make for the best challenges, the best discussions, and give their writers the best shot at getting some helpful feedback – and a potentially valuable read

  • Amateur screenwriters are loosely defined as those who are unrepped and who’ve not been paid more than $10,000 for their work

  • Just like the professional writers, we will show your page onscreen, read it out loud, and discuss it. We try to skew toward the positive, but there could also be some critique

  • Your name, headshot, a short bio, and your logline will be included in the episode. If you like, we’ll also include your primary social media handle or website

  • Want in? Please follow all of the instructions below, including emailing your page to us

  • Because of the large volume of submissions, we can’t read them all. Your bio is the number one thing that’ll get us to look at yours. Give us a concise and easy reason to think your writing might be professional. You were a Nicholl finalist? Include it. You wrote a micro-budget film? Yep. Include it. Your script is a grounded thriller set in space and you were an astronaut? INCLUDE IT.

  • Christmas/Holiday Writers: We’ll be doing a holiday episode this season! This is a narrower category, which means a better chance of being included. If you’re interested, please check that box in the submission form and include a second page in your email to us (unless you only want to be considered for this category)

Guests

  • We’re currently all set for guests on Season 2, but there’s a decent shot we’ll be continuing in the future. If you’d like to be involved and are a writer, agent, director, manager, actor, exec, or producer who’s worked on or contributed to major Hollywood productions, we’d love to hear from you. Click that email icon in the upper right corner and get in touch!

ASPIRING WRITERS: SUBMIT!

  1. Please email a single first page to SpotTheProSeries@gmail.com. Include your name and “SUBMISSION” in the subject line. If submitting to the Christmas/Holiday category, you may include a second page

  2. Submit your info through the form below

Please note:

  • If we’re interested in using one of your pages, we will reach out. Please don’t contact us to follow up