My project disappears from iMovie'11!

I made a project for my video with files imported from iTunes and iPhoto libraries.
First of all, iMovie didn't finalize the project and I don't know why.
In second instance, when I restarted my computer the project was gone from the project library on iMovie.
What I don't understand is that the project is still on the "iMovie projects"'s folder in the Finder.
Can anybody help me with this problem, please?

Did anyone ever get an answer for this?

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