How can I restore an iMovie project after a force quit?

I have been working on an iMovie project for a few months now and today as I was uploading a new video to it, iMovie locked up. I had no choice but to force quit the application. I had not previously saved my project because it had always opened back up even after closing iMovie and even shutting down my Mac. Once I force quit iMovie and reopened it, my project was gone. It is still under the iMovie project folder but when I click "open with iMovie" it won't open. Is there any way to restore my project even if it takes it back to a previous time I had worked on it? I also have not used time machine so it was not running during this time. I would be devastated to have to restart my project.

I forgot to put in the previous post that it is iMovie '11. Any help is appreciated.

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