My project in imovie isnt showing up

I've been working on a project for my family for Christmas and all of sudden its not showing up in iMovie.  I know I didn't delete it but I checked my trash can anyway.  Under the thing that lists the projects, its not even under that.  It had been there everytime until today when I went to go work on it and its not there. Does anyone know where it could be? I havent done anything different than I had been any other day that I worked on it.  Please, does anyone know how to help? I've been working on this project for like 4 months......

I moved it because I did not have room on my hard drive to import my latest video. I take videos my grandkids basketball games then edit them as projects. I don't have room to move the whole events library back to my hard drive. Can I move part of it at a time.
I filled up my 1 TB back up drive so got a 3TB to move my video projects to. Do I have to move both the i photo videos and the projects to the 3 TB drive together some how. When can I delete them off the hard drive .
I moved all the i photo library to the 3 TB drive and deleted them out of i photo. That is 87 GB which I don't have room for on my hard drive.
I think when I use the export movie to my hard drive it works but will I still be able to edit it later if I want. Is it best to do quick time or i tunes if I use the export feature.

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