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It's three months until the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, so people are already making their plans for things to do.

The Black List, the screenwriter-focused group that publishes an annual list of the best unproduced scripts floating around Hollywood, has formed a partnership with the Autograph Collection hotel group, the upscale branch of Marriott.

At Sundance, the partnership will mean a social space and writer-centered programming at the Hotel Park City, an Autograph property, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details are being finalized.

Franklin Leonard, who founded The Black List and was a juror at the 2016 festival, said "Sundance is arguably the reason why I wanted to work in this industry. To be able to have a space at Sundance for writers — I am just incredibly excited."

The work with The Black List is part of Autograph's Independent Film Initiative, which includes an in-house independent-film channel for hotel guests, curated by the distributor FilmBuff. Autograph will also take advantage of its properties in other film-festival cities — Venice, Berlin and London among them — for other events.

Outside of Park City, the hotel chain will sponsor two event series, Black List Live! and Black List Table Reads. The weeklong Black List Screenwriter Lab and the Black List Happy Hours will be held at the chain's properties. And the chain is launching a writer-in-residency program, the Autograph Collection Hotel Residencies, that will allow five writers from the 2016 Black List to research and write out of the chain's hotels over the course of 2017.