iMovie media sort order

I'm trying to create and edit a video project from my year's worth of video clips taken on my iPhone and saved in my Photos library. When I select "Photos" from the sidebar menu in the iMovie media section, I then filter at the top by selecting "All Photos" and "Videos" but my video clips appear in reverse order (newest to oldest) and there's no way to change the sort order. As a result, when I select several clips and drag them to the edit timeline, they are inserted in reverse chronological order... Why would I want my Christmas video clips appearing first in my video project, followed by Thanksgiving, then Halloween, etc.? This is nuts. I do this every year and iMovie has worked fine until now. I suspect that either iMovie 10.3.5 or MacOS 12.6 bugs are the culprit, but I would love to hear if anyone else is running into this problem and discovered a workaround. Thanks.