IMovie '14 - importing from iPhoto

First use of iMovie'14 since upgrade to Retina MacBook so had a quick look at a couple of YouTube tutorials which seem fairly straight forward but when I select the Import function I get a new screen with the list of my everything on my hard drive apart from the 'iPhoto files'
It's there, but it's grey'd out and not accessible - what am I doing wrong?

After moving your library to your EHD, you need to open that library in iPhoto.
iMovie will always see your latest used iPhoto library. (In case you have multiple, and you probably do as iPhoto will always create a new library in the home folder when there is no library available in the home-folder).
HtH
Ben

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