Imovie is not showing my videos from iPhoto

Hi, i have uploaded some videos from my iPhone to macbook in iPhoto. I want to edit them in iMovie but cannot find my videos in the library, but my pictures are there. The videos usually come up and i have the option to use whichever ones i want. Please can you help me. Thanking you in advance x

After calling Apple (they were no help and I was disappointed) I kept searching in the Apple support community and found the answer. 
To get iMovie '11 to show the iPhoto videos under the event library on the bottom left of iMovie, you simply have to empty your iPhoto trash.  Once the trash was emptied, I restarted iMovie and the problem was fixed after iMovie did a search and showed the thumbnails of the videos. 
Again, this info came from another person on the support community.  Hope this helps someone else.
Matt

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