IMovie 10.0.3 project disappears after share

I created a new project in iMovie 10.0.3 (2013), but sometime after I "Shared" it to iTunes, it disappeared from the iMovie project browser.  I still have the finished movie, but I cannot edit and re-share the movie because the "project" has gone missing. To be clear:
- the movie clips are still shown in iMovie
- The finished movie is still shown in the "Theater" tab
- The project DOES NOT appear anywhere in the "LIbraries" browser in iMovie
- The project DOES appear to be still on the disk here:
~/Movies/iMovie\ Library.imovielibrary/\ Updated\ Projects/Ski\ edit
With the CurrentVersion.imoveevent file. Does anyone have any ideas why this happened or how to get the project back? I have alread tried the following:
- Remove iMovie and reinstall
- Remove iMovie preference files

I'm a bit puzzled by your path description to the project. 
~/Movies/iMovie\ Library.imovielibrary/\ Updated\ Projects/Ski\ edit
What are all the back-slashes?  If the missing project is called "Ski" (is this correct?) then I would have expected :
~/Movies/iMovie/Library.imovielibrary/Updated Projects/Ski
and within the Ski folder there would be folders called Ski Project, Original Media, Render Files, Shared items, Old versions, Analysis files and the CurrentVersion.imoveevent file. (Not all may be present and there may be others).  I have never seen an item "edit".
You say Ski is a project created in iMovie 10.  In that case it would not appear in the "Updated Projects" event but directly under Library.imovielibrary (unless you deliberately moved it there).
Did you have an earlier version in iMovie 9?
Geoff.

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