She is best known for her work as Director and Executive Producer of the TV series What We Do in the Shadows (2019) and her work in the editorial departments of nearly all of director Taika Waititi’s films, including Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016),Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Jojo Rabbit (2019) and the feature version of What We Do in the Shadows (2014).

[6] Her next three features, also documentaries, were In the Name of Love (2003), produced by Sydney Pollack, about Russian marriage agencies, Sonny Boy (2004), directed by Soleil Moon Frye, focusing on Frye's relationship with her father, and Seeds (2004), about the Seeds of Peace camp in Maine.

[6] Gorskaya's first non-documentary feature was 2007's Rocket Science, with which she worked with Blitz for a second time.

[4] She began her collaboration with Taika Waititi on his first feature, Eagle Vs. Shark (2007), and is credited as an editor or consulting editor on nearly all of his films, including Boy (2010), What We Do in the Shadows (2014, with Jemaine Clement), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), Thor Ragnorak (2017), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and Next Goal Wins (2023).

Her series directing work has made the best of the year lists in the NY Times, Rolling Stone, A.V.

Club, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Vulture, Hollywood Reporter, Decider and IGN.

Other directing credits include the NBC series Trial & Error (2017-2018) and the upcoming adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 film Time Bandits, produced and written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement.

Gorskaya is also a screenwriter with writing partner and childhood friend Maia Rossini.

They sold a musical comedy to Fox with Paul Feig attached to direct.