IMovie Crashed...and my project disappeared, or did it?

Hi! I've been using my MacBook Air running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 to edit a movie on iMovie 10.0.6. The movie was up to about 40 minutes of edited video with nearly 450 imported clips (many clips only a few seconds) when mid clip trim the application froze. My computer automatically restarted after less than a minute and when I reopened iMovie, my project was missing BUT all my clips (non-edited) were still there.
I've read as many other discussions as I could find about this problem and haven't seemed to find a viable solution. If I open up the iMovie Library Package in Finder I can see the name of my current project with a CurrentVersion.imovieevent file. All the other associated folders i.e. Original Media, Render Files, etc. seem to be fine as well. BUT when I open up iMovie, the project is not listed anywhere.
If anyone has any suggestions or solutions I would be extremely appreciative

Thanks, Luis. I have looked through all my clips and don't find any with my movie attached. My film thus far is about 3 minutes and I don't have any clips close to that in length. Is there somewhere else to look for a clip that got opened in a timeline?

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