Yana Gorskaya

Yana Gorskaya
Gorskaya (center) with Sean Welch and Jeffrey Blitz at the 2010 Sundance film festival
Born	Yana Viktorovna Gorokhovskaya Soviet Union
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	2002–present

Yana Gorskaya (Russian: Яна Горская; Яна Викторовна Гороховская) is a Russian-American film editor. She is best known for her work in the editorial departments of the films Spellbound (2002), Rocket Science (2007) and What We Do in the Shadows (2015).

Gorskaya obtained a Bachelor of Arts from New York City's Columbia University and later attended the University of Southern California (USC) to obtain a Master of Fine Arts degree. She was hired to edit her first feature film, 2002's Spellbound, when director Jeffrey Blitz asked his former USC mentor Kate Amend if she would recommend one of her students to work on his documentary film. Amend suggested Gorskaya, who was working as a teaching assistant while completing her MFA; Gorskaya accepted the offer and put together the final cut of the film, working part-time from 2000–2002.Spellbound was ultimately nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and Gorskaya won the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary. 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.